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
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance Building In...
The Germania Life Insurance Building was built in 1889 at Fourth Street and Minnesota in downtown...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
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...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
Historic Wasioja
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Finding The Past In Swatara
Green Lake Mounds
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Sandstone
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Little Falls Depot
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome to Hanska
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Le Sueur Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Ottawa
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The End of the Line in Currie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Enter Marlon Brando
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moving Old Hibbing
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 48 School Near Delano
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion School In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Dotson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Brewery In Preston
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
District 6 School in New Sweden
Red Wing Iron Works
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Florence Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hanover Bridge
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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