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 Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Florence Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Sandstone
Meyer School In St Augusta
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Ottawa
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The End of the Line in Currie
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Cobden
Moving Old Hibbing
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Wasioja
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Enter Marlon Brando
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Brewery In Preston
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Dotson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Green Lake Mounds
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion School In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome to Hanska
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...

