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...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Little Falls Depot
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Endion School In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Green Lake Mounds
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Little Marais Inn
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Milford Monument
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome to Hanska
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Almelund Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
The Le Sueur Theater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hanover Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Meyer School In St Augusta
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Incline Railway
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Old School In Wolverton
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Franconia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Church of the Holy Cross
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Florence Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Cobden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown