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
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Located in Robbinsdale, the international-style Terrace Theatre opened on May 23, 1951. At the...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
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...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The public library in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota was built in 1913 with a $10,000 grant from Andrew...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Visiting Golden Gate
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Enter Marlon Brando
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Old School In Wolverton
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
The Le Sueur Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Florence Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome to Hanska
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Red Wing Iron Works
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The End of the Line in Currie
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Ruins of Sawyer School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Ottawa
State Theater In Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lost Highway 61
Endion School In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moderne New Ulm Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Little Falls Depot
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Wasioja
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Milford Monument
Remembering Quadna Resort
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moving Old Hibbing
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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