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
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Little Marais Inn
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bend in the River Regional Park
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Wasioja
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Almelund Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lost Highway 61
Enter Marlon Brando
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Florence Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moderne New Ulm Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moving Old Hibbing
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Franconia
Visiting Golden Gate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Sandstone
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering Quadna Resort
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Old School In Wolverton
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Green Lake Mounds
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Old Wadena
The End of the Line in Currie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome to Hanska
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s 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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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