The Germania Life Insurance Building was built in 1889 at Fourth Street and Minnesota in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance Building In...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Enter Marlon Brando
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Le Sueur Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Sandstone
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Green Lake Mounds
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moderne New Ulm Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jordan Brewery Complex
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The End of the Line in Currie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lost Highway 61
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Dotson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Church of the Holy Cross
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome to Hanska
The Almelund Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hanover Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Ottawa
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Red Wing Iron Works
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moving Old Hibbing
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Milford Monument
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Florence Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion School In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

