The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis was constructed between 1891 and 1893. It was...
Twin Cities Area
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The End of the Line in Currie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Visiting Golden Gate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Park In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Moving Old Hibbing
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Brewery In Preston
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lost Highway 61
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Enter Marlon Brando
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Milford Monument
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Sandstone
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Dotson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Almelund Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Wasioja
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Cobden
Florence Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion Depot In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 48 School Near Delano
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome to Hanska
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Remembering Quadna Resort
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
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...
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...

