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
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The End of the Line in Currie
State Theater In Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome to Hanska
The Little Marais Inn
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Red Wing Iron Works
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Little Falls Depot
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Visiting Golden Gate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Old School In Wolverton
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Endion School In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moving Old Hibbing
District 6 School in New Sweden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Franconia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Sandstone
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Milford Monument
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion Depot In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hanover Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Old Wadena
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Le Sueur Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 48 School Near Delano
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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 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?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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