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
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
If you’ve been to the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota, there’s a good chance you’ve...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Visiting Golden Gate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Florence Town Hall
Historic Franconia
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 6 School in New Sweden
Red Wing Iron Works
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Dotson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Wasioja
Remembering Quadna Resort
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Cobden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Little Marais Inn
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Sandstone
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
The Milford Monument
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Little Falls Depot
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hanover Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Duluth Homestead Project
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jordan Brewery Complex
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
State Theater In Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Green Lake Mounds
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Old School In Wolverton
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Almelund Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Le Sueur Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Enter Marlon Brando
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Ottawa
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
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