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...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wilder Public Baths
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
November 27, 1905, was a typical Monday morning for the crew of the flat-bottomed scow, George...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 48 School Near Delano
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Green Lake Mounds
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hanover Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome to Hanska
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Wasioja
Little Falls Depot
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Meyer School In St Augusta
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
Enter Marlon Brando
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Cobden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The End of the Line in Currie
Lost Highway 61
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Milford Monument
The Little Marais Inn
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Old School In Wolverton
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Finding The Past In Swatara
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Red Wing Iron Works
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moving Old Hibbing
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Franconia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion Depot In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
The Duluth Homestead Project
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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