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
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Historic Wasioja
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Franconia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moving Old Hibbing
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Ruins of Sawyer School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Dotson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Little Marais Inn
Old Brewery In Preston
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Endion School In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Green Lake Mounds
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Enter Marlon Brando
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion Depot In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
State Theater In Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hanover Bridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Ottawa
Finding The Past In Swatara
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lost Highway 61
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Red Wing Iron Works
The Milford Monument
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The End of the Line in Currie
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Old School In Wolverton
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Church of the Holy Cross
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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