The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis was constructed between 1891 and 1893. It was...
Twin Cities Area
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Franconia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The End of the Line in Currie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Green Lake Mounds
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Wasioja
Little Falls Depot
Oxford Mill Ruin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 48 School Near Delano
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Red Wing Iron Works
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lost Highway 61
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Sandstone
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Milford Monument
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hanover Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Florence Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Finding The Past In Swatara
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jordan Brewery Complex
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Cobden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bend in the River Regional Park
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome to Hanska
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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