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
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
This gorgeous Second Empire style home in Hastings was built for William Thompson in 1880. Thompson...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Sandstone
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome to Hanska
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Old School In Wolverton
Ruins of Sawyer School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lost Highway 61
Florence Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Church of the Holy Cross
The End of the Line in Currie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Enter Marlon Brando
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Red Wing Iron Works
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion Depot In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Visiting Golden Gate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Cobden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Le Sueur Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hanover Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Ottawa
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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