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
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bend in the River Regional Park
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jordan Brewery Complex
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Visiting Golden Gate
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Old School In Wolverton
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Meyer School In St Augusta
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Sandstone
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Red Wing Iron Works
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The End of the Line in Currie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 48 School Near Delano
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Duluth Homestead Project
Florence Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Almelund Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Brewery In Preston
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Le Sueur Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Milford Monument
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wandering Around The Toimi School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moving Old Hibbing
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Dotson
Hanover Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion School In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lost Highway 61
The Little Marais Inn
Enter Marlon Brando
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In 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