The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis was constructed between 1891 and 1893. It was...
Twin Cities Area
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
By the end of the 19th century, dairy was quickly out-pacing wheat as the top agricultural...
Florence Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Brewery In Preston
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Wasioja
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moderne New Ulm Library
Green Lake Mounds
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Sandstone
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Little Marais Inn
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Dotson
Lost Highway 61
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Old School In Wolverton
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Old Wadena
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Duluth Homestead Project
Little Falls Depot
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Visiting Golden Gate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
State Theater In Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Franconia
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill 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 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

