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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Apartments
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
Red Wing Iron Works was founded in 1866 by brothers Benjamin and Daniel Densmore. They found a...
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...
Old Brewery In Preston
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
The Milford Monument
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jordan Brewery Complex
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Franconia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Sandstone
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome to Hanska
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Cobden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Hanover Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Enter Marlon Brando
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Green Lake Mounds
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lost Highway 61
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Little Falls Depot
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Ottawa
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Little Marais Inn
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bend in the River Regional Park
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Duluth Homestead Project
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering Quadna Resort
The End of the Line in Currie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion Depot In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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