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
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Sandstone
Ruins of Sawyer School
Visiting Golden Gate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Milford Monument
The Almelund Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Ottawa
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Enter Marlon Brando
District 48 School Near Delano
The End of the Line in Currie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Cobden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome to Hanska
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Brewery In Preston
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion Depot In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hanover Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Old School In Wolverton
Moving Old Hibbing
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Endion School In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moderne New Ulm Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Red Wing Iron Works
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 6 School in New Sweden
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

