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
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District Number 11 in McLeod County was first organized in 1865 to serve the predominantly Czech...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Visiting Golden Gate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Franconia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Ottawa
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Milford Monument
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Cobden
Oxford Mill Ruin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lost Highway 61
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion Depot In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
The End of the Line in Currie
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bend in the River Regional Park
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Red Wing Iron Works
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Green Lake Mounds
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Florence Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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