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 Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Wasioja
Endion School In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Little Marais Inn
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Sandstone
The Milford Monument
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moving Old Hibbing
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Florence Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Ottawa
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Cobden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 48 School Near Delano
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 6 School in New Sweden
Red Wing Iron Works
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moderne New Ulm Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Old School In Wolverton
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Church of the Holy Cross
Oxford Mill Ruin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Almelund Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hanover Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bend in the River Regional Park
The End of the Line in Currie
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Duluth Homestead Project
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
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