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