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
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Ottawa
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The End of the Line in Currie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Florence Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Milford Monument
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lost Highway 61
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Remembering Quadna Resort
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Meyer School In St Augusta
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hanover Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
District 48 School Near Delano
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Little Marais Inn
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Red Wing Iron Works
Oxford Mill Ruin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Visiting Golden Gate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
Bend in the River Regional Park
Little Falls Depot
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion School In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Green Lake Mounds
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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