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
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Built in 1926, the New Ulm Company Service Station is the best remaining example in a series of...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Almelund Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Green Lake Mounds
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Florence Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Wasioja
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
State Theater In Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Little Falls Depot
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Le Sueur Theater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Visiting Golden Gate
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion School In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Franconia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Church of the Holy Cross
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Milford Monument
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Enter Marlon Brando
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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