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 William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Robbinsdale Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Built in 1926, the New Ulm Company Service Station is the best remaining example in a series of...
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Ottawa
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
State Theater In Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The End of the Line in Currie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lost Highway 61
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jordan Brewery Complex
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 6 School in New Sweden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
District 48 School Near Delano
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lundring Service Station in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Old School In Wolverton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood Town Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Sandstone
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Almelund Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Wasioja
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Old Wadena
Florence Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Little Falls Depot
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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