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
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Apartments
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Sandstone
The Almelund Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Enter Marlon Brando
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Wasioja
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 48 School Near Delano
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Little Falls Depot
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lost Highway 61
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Franconia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Meyer School In St Augusta
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Dotson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Brewery In Preston
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
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...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown