The Germania Life Insurance Building was built in 1889 at Fourth Street and Minnesota in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance Building In...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Adolph Biermann house in Rochester is the oldest documented structure in the Mayowood Historic...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome to Hanska
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion Depot In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moderne New Ulm Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Dotson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Wasioja
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lost Highway 61
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Franconia
The Milford Monument
The Le Sueur Theater
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Florence Town Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion School In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Red Wing Iron Works
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Little Marais Inn
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Visiting Golden Gate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Old School In Wolverton
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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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