The Germania Life Insurance Building was built in 1889 at Fourth Street and Minnesota in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance Building In...
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 Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Florence Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Brewery In Preston
Lost Highway 61
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The End of the Line in Currie
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Little Falls Depot
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 48 School Near Delano
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moderne New Ulm Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Old School In Wolverton
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bend in the River Regional Park
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Le Sueur Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Ottawa
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Red Wing Iron Works
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Franconia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Wasioja
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Milford Monument
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Sandstone
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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