The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis was constructed between 1891 and 1893. It was...
Twin Cities Area
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moving Old Hibbing
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Franconia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Florence Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Le Sueur Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 48 School Near Delano
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The End of the Line in Currie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Wasioja
Endion School In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Enter Marlon Brando
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Ottawa
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Green Lake Mounds
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Visiting Golden Gate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Milford Monument
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome to Hanska
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Dotson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Sandstone
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Brewery In Preston
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion Depot In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

