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
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District Number 11 in McLeod County was first organized in 1865 to serve the predominantly Czech...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The George and Charlotte Crosby house is located just a few blocks east of downtown Duluth...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Sandstone
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Milford Monument
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hanover Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Old School In Wolverton
Ruins of Sawyer School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering Quadna Resort
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Finding The Past In Swatara
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Franconia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Florence Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Meyer School In St Augusta
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Wasioja
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion School In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Le Sueur Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 48 School Near Delano
Green Lake Mounds
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Brewery In Preston
Visiting Golden Gate
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Red Wing Iron Works
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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