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...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
The Little Marais Inn
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Old Wadena
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 48 School Near Delano
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Milford Monument
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome to Hanska
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moving Old Hibbing
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Brewery In Preston
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Red Wing Iron Works
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Endion School In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hanover Bridge
Historic Wasioja
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Visiting Golden Gate
The Le Sueur Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

