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...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Greater Minnesota
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Washington County District No. 2 was formed in 1857 for the growing number of children moving into...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
William J Mayo was the older of the two Mayo brothers who, along with five partners, founded the...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
District 6 School in New Sweden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome to Hanska
Red Wing Iron Works
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Old Wadena
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Florence Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Franconia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion School In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Milford Monument
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Brewery In Preston
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Oxford Mill Ruin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Cobden
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Green Lake Mounds
Meyer School In St Augusta
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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