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...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Archibald mill is located on the banks of the Cannon River in Dundas. Brothers John S. and...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lost Highway 61
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion Depot In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Visiting Golden Gate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Green Lake Mounds
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
State Theater In Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taylor House In Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 48 School Near Delano
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Cobden
Hanover Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Red Wing Iron Works
The Little Marais Inn
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Endion School In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Franconia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Milford Monument
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Wasioja
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Enter Marlon Brando
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Meyer School In St Augusta
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome to Hanska
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
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
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

