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
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
The End of the Line in Currie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Milford Monument
Little Falls Depot
The Le Sueur Theater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jordan Brewery Complex
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moderne New Ulm Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Brewery In Preston
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Church of the Holy Cross
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lost Highway 61
Remembering Quadna Resort
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Franconia
Endion School In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Cobden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Florence Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Little Marais Inn
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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