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
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Washington County District No. 2 was formed in 1857 for the growing number of children moving into...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Almelund Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Visiting Golden Gate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Cobden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Red Wing Iron Works
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Franconia
The Milford Monument
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Green Lake Mounds
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 6 School in New Sweden
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Old School In Wolverton
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Enter Marlon Brando
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Meyer School In St Augusta
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Ruins of Sawyer School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
State Theater In Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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