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...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion School In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Almelund Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Little Marais Inn
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Visiting Golden Gate
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Milford Monument
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Church of the Holy Cross
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The End of the Line in Currie
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lost Highway 61
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Le Sueur Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hanover Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Brewery In Preston
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Wasioja
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion Depot In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome to Hanska
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moderne New Ulm Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Ottawa
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Franconia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 48 School Near Delano
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
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 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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