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
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium was the first medical hospital in Anoka, Minnesota. Dr. James F. Kline opened the...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Wasioja
Endion Depot In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Enter Marlon Brando
Hanover Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Florence Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Little Falls Depot
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 48 School Near Delano
Green Lake Mounds
Red Wing Iron Works
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Dotson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Ottawa
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering Quadna Resort
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
State Theater In Hutchinson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ruins of Sawyer School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Finding The Past In Swatara
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Visiting Golden Gate
Lost Highway 61
The Old School In Wolverton
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Sandstone
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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