The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis was constructed between 1891 and 1893. It was...
Twin Cities Area
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Church of the Holy Cross
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Ottawa
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Old School In Wolverton
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moderne New Ulm Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Meyer School In St Augusta
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Little Marais Inn
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 48 School Near Delano
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Sandstone
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
Bend in the River Regional Park
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Little Falls Depot
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Ruins of Sawyer School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lost Highway 61
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moving Old Hibbing
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Florence Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Franconia
Red Wing Iron Works
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Milford Monument
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...
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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