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
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
By the end of the 19th century, dairy was quickly out-pacing wheat as the top agricultural...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Built in 1926, the New Ulm Company Service Station is the best remaining example in a series of...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Green Lake Mounds
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hanover Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lost Highway 61
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
State Theater In Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Cobden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Franconia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Daniel Piper House in Medford
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Little Falls Depot
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Milford Monument
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome to Hanska
The Le Sueur Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Enter Marlon Brando
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Little Marais Inn
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood Town Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Old Wadena
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
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