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 Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis was constructed between 1891 and 1893. It was...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Little Marais Inn
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Le Sueur Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Old Wadena
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Hanover Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Milford Monument
The Old School In Wolverton
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Little Falls Depot
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Dotson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Cobden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome to Hanska
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Almelund Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
Lost Highway 61
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moving Old Hibbing
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Sandstone
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Green Lake Mounds
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Red Wing Iron Works
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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