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
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Franconia
The Le Sueur Theater
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
State Theater In Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Milford Monument
District 6 School in New Sweden
Little Falls Depot
Hanover Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 48 School Near Delano
Enter Marlon Brando
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Lost Highway 61
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Wasioja
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Florence Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Visiting Golden Gate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Dotson
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Green Lake Mounds
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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