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