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
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...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Lincoln Branch of the Duluth Public Library opened in 1917 thanks to $30,000 from Andrew...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hanover Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lost Highway 61
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Little Marais Inn
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Green Lake Mounds
Meyer School In St Augusta
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Duluth Homestead Project
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bend in the River Regional Park
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
The End of the Line in Currie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Ruins of Sawyer School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Franconia
The Almelund Creamery
Little Falls Depot
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Milford Monument
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Sandstone
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion School In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome to Hanska
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moving Old Hibbing
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Ottawa
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses 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