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
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Martha G. Ripley Hospital for Women was a pioneering institution in the history of Minnesota...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Greater Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Vermont-native Almond A. White came to Minnesota after the Civil War and settled in Brainerd for a...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The charming town of Winona, Minnesota, once played host to an extraordinary tale in the world of...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Red Wing Iron Works
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Old Wadena
Moving Old Hibbing
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Ottawa
Hanover Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Little Marais Inn
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Visiting Golden Gate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lost Highway 61
Enter Marlon Brando
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Old School In Wolverton
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Little Falls Depot
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Milford Monument
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The End of the Line in Currie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
The Church of the Holy Cross
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion School In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Cobden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome to Hanska
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

