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
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
The Le Sueur Theater on Main Street in Le Sueur, Minnesota, opened in 1884. The building was...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Franconia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Sandstone
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Cobden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Little Falls Depot
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Incline Railway
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Almelund Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Milford Monument
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hanover Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Enter Marlon Brando
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Little Marais Inn
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome to Hanska
Old Brewery In Preston
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Visiting Golden Gate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Church of the Holy Cross
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion School In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Wasioja
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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