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
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Old Brewery In Preston
The Preston Brewery sits at the base of a bluff along the Root River, a site known for its scenic...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Enter Marlon Brando
The Milford Monument
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Old Wadena
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Old School In Wolverton
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Little Marais Inn
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hanover Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Florence Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Green Lake Mounds
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Finding The Past In Swatara
Visiting Golden Gate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Wasioja
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Bend in the River Regional Park
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Ottawa
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Franconia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Meyer School In St Augusta
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 48 School Near Delano
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Le Sueur Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Dotson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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