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
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
The Little Marais Inn
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Old School In Wolverton
District 48 School Near Delano
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Red Wing Iron Works
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Franconia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Little Falls Depot
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Old Wadena
Enter Marlon Brando
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Cobden
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hanover Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Dotson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Wasioja
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
The Milford Monument
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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