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 End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
After one hundred and twenty years, the mystery of what happened to Clara Ober between the evening...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hanover Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion School In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Almelund Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Florence Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jordan Brewery Complex
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Little Falls Depot
The Little Marais Inn
Enter Marlon Brando
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Milford Monument
The End of the Line in Currie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Cobden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Wasioja
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Remembering Quadna Resort
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Franconia
Lost Highway 61
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Le Sueur Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Finding The Past In Swatara
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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