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 Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The public library in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota was built in 1913 with a $10,000 grant from Andrew...
Historic Wasioja
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering Quadna Resort
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Daniel Piper House in Medford
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Cobden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Enter Marlon Brando
The Almelund Creamery
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 48 School Near Delano
The Church of the Holy Cross
Finding The Past In Swatara
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
The Le Sueur Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lost Highway 61
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Franconia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Red Wing Iron Works
Meyer School In St Augusta
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Sandstone
Visiting Golden Gate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Ottawa
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Green Lake Mounds
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Florence Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Dotson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Little Falls Depot
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Brewery In Preston
State Theater In Hutchinson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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 John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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