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
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
World-renowned author F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in an apartment on the second floor of this...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Several buildings were constructed on 30 acres of lakefront property in Two Harbors in the 1920s to...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Enter Marlon Brando
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Dotson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hanover Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Visiting Golden Gate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering Quadna Resort
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Wasioja
Welcome to Hanska
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Milford Monument
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Brewery In Preston
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Old Wadena
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 6 School in New Sweden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Franconia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Sandstone
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
The Old School In Wolverton
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Green Lake Mounds
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Little Falls Depot
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Endion School In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 48 School Near Delano
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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