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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Little Falls Depot
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moving Old Hibbing
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Duluth Homestead Project
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Almelund Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering Quadna Resort
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Visiting Golden Gate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hanover Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Oxford Mill Ruin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
Finding The Past In Swatara
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 6 School in New Sweden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lost Highway 61
The Old School In Wolverton
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Milford Monument
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Wasioja
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hollywood Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Little Marais Inn
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome to Hanska
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Cobden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
District 48 School Near Delano
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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