The Germania Life Insurance Building was built in 1889 at Fourth Street and Minnesota in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance Building In...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Cobden
Florence Town Hall
The Milford Monument
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Wasioja
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 48 School Near Delano
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lost Highway 61
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wandering Around The Toimi School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Ottawa
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
Moderne New Ulm Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome to Hanska
The Almelund Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hanover Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Le Sueur Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Little Marais Inn
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Little Falls Depot
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
Visiting Golden Gate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Franconia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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