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 Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Built in 1926, the New Ulm Company Service Station is the best remaining example in a series of...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
The Old School In Wolverton
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Oxford Mill Ruin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lost Highway 61
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Dotson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Ottawa
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion School In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Cobden
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Almelund Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hanover Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Milford Monument
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moving Old Hibbing
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Wasioja
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome to Hanska
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Sandstone
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Duluth Homestead Project
Meyer School In St Augusta
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
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...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
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
Old Brewery In Preston