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
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Meyer School In St Augusta
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Wasioja
Remembering Quadna Resort
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Old School In Wolverton
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion School In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Florence Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome to Hanska
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Green Lake Mounds
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Little Marais Inn
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hanover Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Cobden
The Almelund Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
Finding The Past In Swatara
Visiting Golden Gate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moving Old Hibbing
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Red Wing Iron Works
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Milford Monument
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Little Falls Depot
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Church of the Holy Cross
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Sandstone
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Ottawa
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Oxford Mill Ruin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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