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
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gates of Stonebridge
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Brewery In Preston
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 48 School Near Delano
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Meyer School In St Augusta
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Enter Marlon Brando
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Wasioja
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome to Hanska
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Franconia
Endion School In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jordan Brewery Complex
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Little Marais Inn
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Almelund Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Ottawa
Little Falls Depot
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Park In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Red Wing Iron Works
Green Lake Mounds
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
The Old School In Wolverton
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Visiting Golden Gate
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Sandstone
The End of the Line in Currie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moderne New Ulm Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Hanover Bridge
The Milford Monument
District 6 School in New Sweden
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Old Wadena
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Florence Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

