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
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moderne New Ulm Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hanover Bridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Church of the Holy Cross
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Florence Town Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Cobden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
State Theater In Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome to Hanska
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Red Wing Iron Works
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Wasioja
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Franconia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion School In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lost Highway 61
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
The Duluth Homestead Project
Little Falls Depot
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
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