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
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Greater Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Milford Monument
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Franconia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome to Hanska
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Enter Marlon Brando
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Old School In Wolverton
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Dotson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Florence Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Brewery In Preston
Red Wing Iron Works
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Wasioja
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jordan Brewery Complex
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Sandstone
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The End of the Line in Currie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Little Falls Depot
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Ottawa
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Cobden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
State Theater In Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Visiting Golden Gate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
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
Old Brewery In Preston