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
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
For several years, Tenney held the distinction of being Minnesota’s smallest town. The 2010 census...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Sandstone
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Florence Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Almelund Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome to Hanska
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Ottawa
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Dotson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Old School In Wolverton
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Wasioja
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 48 School Near Delano
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hanover Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Little Falls Depot
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Brewery In Preston
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Red Wing Iron Works
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Green Lake Mounds
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Cobden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Franconia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Enter Marlon Brando
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
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
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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