The Germania Life Insurance Building was built in 1889 at Fourth Street and Minnesota in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance Building In...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery and Wurstery is located near the Mississippi River in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lost Highway 61
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Little Marais Inn
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Sandstone
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Almelund Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Enter Marlon Brando
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome to Hanska
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Cobden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Milford Monument
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Franconia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hanover Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Brewery In Preston
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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