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
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Apartments
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Greater Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Florence Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Le Sueur Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood Town Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Red Wing Iron Works
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Moving Old Hibbing
Visiting Golden Gate
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Cobden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Old School In Wolverton
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Enter Marlon Brando
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Franconia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Lost Highway 61
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
State Theater In Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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