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
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Red Wing Iron Works
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Green Lake Mounds
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Dotson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion School In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Ruins of Sawyer School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
Little Falls Depot
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Cobden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Milford Monument
Enter Marlon Brando
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Florence Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Le Sueur Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hanover Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
District 48 School Near Delano
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
Visiting Golden Gate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lost Highway 61
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Wasioja
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
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...
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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