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
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on 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...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Red Wing Iron Works
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Wasioja
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lost Highway 61
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Milford Monument
Green Lake Mounds
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moving Old Hibbing
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hanover Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Sandstone
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Visiting Golden Gate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Ottawa
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Cobden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion School In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Florence Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Duluth Homestead Project
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Le Sueur Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Old School In Wolverton
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Dotson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Old Brewery In Preston
Little Falls Depot
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
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