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
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Greater Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
November 27, 1905, was a typical Monday morning for the crew of the flat-bottomed scow, George...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Florence Town Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Milford Monument
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Ruins of Sawyer School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion Depot In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jordan Brewery Complex
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Red Wing Iron Works
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Dotson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Old School In Wolverton
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Brewery In Preston
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Sandstone
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Wasioja
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Ottawa
Hanover Bridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Green Lake Mounds
Oxford Mill Ruin
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The End of the Line in Currie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Cobden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Almelund Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lost Highway 61
Bend in the River Regional Park
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Little Marais Inn
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Le Sueur Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 48 School Near Delano
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
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 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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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