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
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The public library in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota was built in 1913 with a $10,000 grant from Andrew...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Sandstone
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moderne New Ulm Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Little Falls Depot
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Wasioja
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Milford Monument
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Green Lake Mounds
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Visiting Golden Gate
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Little Marais Inn
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
Florence Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Enter Marlon Brando
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Franconia
Lost Highway 61
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Ottawa
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 48 School Near Delano
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

