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
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Ottawa
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The End of the Line in Currie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering Quadna Resort
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Brewery In Preston
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Wasioja
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood Town Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome to Hanska
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 48 School Near Delano
Red Wing Iron Works
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lost Highway 61
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Visiting Golden Gate
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Florence Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
Dead Good Walks
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
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