The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
Twin Cities Area
The Saint Paul Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion School In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Cobden
Ruins of Sawyer School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Florence Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Duluth Homestead Project
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Old Brewery In Preston
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Green Lake Mounds
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Oxford Mill Ruin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 48 School Near Delano
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Little Falls Depot
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Franconia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Church of the Holy Cross
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
State Theater In Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Sandstone
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Old Wadena
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome to Hanska
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Enter Marlon Brando
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Wasioja
The Old School In Wolverton
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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