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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to one of the most awe-inspiring buildings in Minnesota. It’s big. It’s...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Green Lake Mounds
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Old School In Wolverton
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Meyer School In St Augusta
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lost Highway 61
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jordan Brewery Complex
Red Wing Iron Works
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Franconia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moving Old Hibbing
District 48 School Near Delano
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Sandstone
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Little Falls Depot
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Milford Monument
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Ruins of Sawyer School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Brewery In Preston
The Little Marais Inn
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moderne New Ulm Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Finding The Past In Swatara
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion School In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hanover Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
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...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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