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 Saint Paul Hotel
The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Greater Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Florence Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering Quadna Resort
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Franconia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
State Theater In Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The End of the Line in Currie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Almelund Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moving Old Hibbing
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome to Hanska
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Red Wing Iron Works
The Little Marais Inn
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Wasioja
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Dotson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion School In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moderne New Ulm Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Ottawa
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hanover Bridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Little Falls Depot
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Le Sueur Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lost Highway 61
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Old School In Wolverton
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Milford Monument
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
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