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
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Greater Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Franconia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Little Falls Depot
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Sandstone
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Ruins of Sawyer School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hanover Bridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Visiting Golden Gate
Moving Old Hibbing
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Little Marais Inn
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The End of the Line in Currie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion School In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Wasioja
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion Depot In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Cobden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Enter Marlon Brando
The Old School In Wolverton
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moderne New Ulm Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 6 School in New Sweden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Red Wing Iron Works
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Almelund Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Dotson
Florence Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In 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