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
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
William J Mayo was the older of the two Mayo brothers who, along with five partners, founded the...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Enter Marlon Brando
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Dotson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Red Wing Iron Works
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Ottawa
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Old School In Wolverton
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Little Marais Inn
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Duluth Homestead Project
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
District 6 School in New Sweden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lost Highway 61
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Little Falls Depot
Historic Wasioja
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion School In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Florence Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Randall Cooperative Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Franconia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Milford Monument
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Visiting Golden Gate
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Sandstone
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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