The Germania Life Insurance Building was built in 1889 at Fourth Street and Minnesota in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance Building In...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis was founded in 1907 by 39 of the city’s most influential women.This...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
In 1929, the Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge was established in Lanesboro, Minnesota. Membership...
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Old School In Wolverton
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lost Highway 61
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jordan Brewery Complex
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Little Falls Depot
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Franconia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Dotson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
Red Wing Iron Works
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Florence Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Wasioja
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Cobden
Green Lake Mounds
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion Depot In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moving Old Hibbing
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Ruins of Sawyer School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Almelund Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Enter Marlon Brando
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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