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
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Cobden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bend in the River Regional Park
Florence Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hanover Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Almelund Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Sandstone
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Brewery In Preston
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
The Old School In Wolverton
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lost Highway 61
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion School In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Franconia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Ottawa
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Milford Monument
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Ruins of Sawyer School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Little Falls Depot
Visiting Golden Gate
District 48 School Near Delano
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Le Sueur Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Enter Marlon Brando
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Wasioja
Remembering Quadna Resort
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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