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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Sandstone
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Wasioja
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hanover Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Oxford Mill Ruin
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Le Sueur Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Cobden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Florence Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jordan Brewery Complex
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Visiting Golden Gate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Enter Marlon Brando
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Little Falls Depot
The Milford Monument
The End of the Line in Currie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Franconia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Ottawa
District 48 School Near Delano
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Dotson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moving Old Hibbing
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion School In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering Quadna Resort
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

