The Germania Life Insurance Building was built in 1889 at Fourth Street and Minnesota in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance Building In...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Martha G. Ripley Hospital for Women was a pioneering institution in the history of Minnesota...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
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...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Old Wadena
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Florence Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Old School In Wolverton
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome to Hanska
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lost Highway 61
Red Wing Iron Works
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moderne New Ulm Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Cobden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The End of the Line in Currie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Le Sueur Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Oxford Mill Ruin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Ottawa
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hanover Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Almelund Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Little Marais Inn
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Sandstone
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Little Falls Depot
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Milford Monument
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Brewery In Preston
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
State Theater In Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Franconia
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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