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
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The charming town of Winona, Minnesota, once played host to an extraordinary tale in the world of...
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Red Wing Iron Works
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Visiting Golden Gate
Hanover Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 48 School Near Delano
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion School In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome to Hanska
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Wasioja
Enter Marlon Brando
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Ottawa
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Sandstone
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Le Sueur Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Duluth Homestead Project
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The End of the Line in Currie
The Milford Monument
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Dotson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moving Old Hibbing
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Brewery In Preston
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Cobden
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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