St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Twin Cities Area
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Constructed in 1897 for $13,000, the First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was designed...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Eight Days in May Protests
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Townhomes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Vermont-native Almond A. White came to Minnesota after the Civil War and settled in Brainerd for a...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Red Wing Iron Works
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Almelund Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lost Highway 61
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Le Sueur Theater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Dotson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Little Falls Depot
Green Lake Mounds
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome to Hanska
Old Brewery In Preston
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Wasioja
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The End of the Line in Currie
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Ottawa
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hanover Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion Depot In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Little Marais Inn
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Milford Monument
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Church of the Holy Cross
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Florence Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn 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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
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...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

