The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
Twin Cities Area
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The West Bridge in Madelia, Minnesota, was built in 1908. It is the earliest remaining example of a...
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Visiting Golden Gate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 48 School Near Delano
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Dotson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moderne New Ulm Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lost Highway 61
The End of the Line in Currie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Florence Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Cobden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Little Falls Depot
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Green Lake Mounds
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moving Old Hibbing
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Le Sueur Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Ruins of Sawyer School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion Depot In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Brewery In Preston
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
State Theater In Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome to Hanska
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Wasioja
The Little Marais Inn
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Enter Marlon Brando
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
Jordan Brewery Complex
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown