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...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wilder Public Baths
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome to Hanska
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Milford Monument
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Ottawa
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Visiting Golden Gate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Red Wing Iron Works
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
Florence Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Cobden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Le Sueur Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Brewery In Preston
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Little Marais Inn
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lost Highway 61
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion Depot In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Old School In Wolverton
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jordan Brewery Complex
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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...

