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
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wilder Public Baths
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Visiting Golden Gate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Old School In Wolverton
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Cobden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 6 School in New Sweden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Oxford Mill Ruin
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 48 School Near Delano
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Milford Monument
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Brewery In Preston
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion School In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering Quadna Resort
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Le Sueur Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Red Wing Iron Works
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Little Falls Depot
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lost Highway 61
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Wasioja
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Florence Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Dotson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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