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 Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Hollywood Town Hall
The Carver County District Number 76 School was built in 1906 and opened for classes in the fall of...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Sandstone
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Milford Monument
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Red Wing Iron Works
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Ottawa
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome to Hanska
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Endion School In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Cobden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hanover Bridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Old School In Wolverton
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Brewery In Preston
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 48 School Near Delano
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Franconia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lost Highway 61
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Florence Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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