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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome to Hanska
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jordan Brewery Complex
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Enter Marlon Brando
Green Lake Mounds
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The End of the Line in Currie
Florence Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Visiting Golden Gate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lost Highway 61
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
Endion School In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hanover Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Wasioja
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Old School In Wolverton
Moving Old Hibbing
The Duluth Homestead Project
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Little Marais Inn
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Cobden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Franconia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Little Falls Depot
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Milford Monument
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
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...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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