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 Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
November 27, 1905, was a typical Monday morning for the crew of the flat-bottomed scow, George...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hanover Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 48 School Near Delano
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moving Old Hibbing
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Little Falls Depot
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Le Sueur Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Milford Monument
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Little Marais Inn
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Endion Depot In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Dotson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Cobden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lost Highway 61
Florence Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Green Lake Mounds
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Duluth Homestead Project
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Brewery In Preston
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Wasioja
Visiting Golden Gate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome to Hanska
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
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 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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
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