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 William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Townhomes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Greater Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
Welcome to Hanska
Hanska was supposed to be a quick stop on my way from Mankato to Sleepy Eye. I planned to get a few...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The End of the Line in Currie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moderne New Ulm Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Milford Monument
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lost Highway 61
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Dotson
Old Brewery In Preston
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Munger Terrace In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Finding The Past In Swatara
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bend in the River Regional Park
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Old School In Wolverton
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Enter Marlon Brando
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hanover Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 48 School Near Delano
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moving Old Hibbing
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Franconia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Wasioja
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Florence Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Little Falls Depot
Endion School In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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