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 Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Red Wing Iron Works
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Little Falls Depot
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Ruins of Sawyer School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moving Old Hibbing
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Cobden
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Lost Highway 61
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Little Marais Inn
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Milford Monument
Visiting Golden Gate
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jordan Brewery Complex
Oxford Mill Ruin
Finding The Past In Swatara
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Old School In Wolverton
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Old Brewery In Preston