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
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
Hollywood Town Hall
The Carver County District Number 76 School was built in 1906 and opened for classes in the fall of...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Milford Monument
Exploring Ottawa
The End of the Line in Currie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Little Marais Inn
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Almelund Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Old Wadena
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome to Hanska
Lost Highway 61
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Franconia
Exploring Sandstone
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Le Sueur Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Old School In Wolverton
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Cobden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Little Falls Depot
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Red Wing Iron Works
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Florence Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

