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
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Ottawa
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Visiting Golden Gate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Milford Monument
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Wasioja
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The End of the Line in Currie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion School In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome to Hanska
District 48 School Near Delano
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hanover Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Le Sueur Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Florence Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Cobden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Franconia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moving Old Hibbing
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Red Wing Iron Works
Finding The Past In Swatara
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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