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
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Frederick E. Murphy was known as the publisher and guiding spirit of the Minneapolis Tribune...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Visiting Golden Gate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Sandstone
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Dotson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Ottawa
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Old School In Wolverton
Red Wing Iron Works
Moving Old Hibbing
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Milford Monument
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
District 48 School Near Delano
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome to Hanska
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Little Marais Inn
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Church of the Holy Cross
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Finding The Past In Swatara
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Franconia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Almelund Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
Enter Marlon Brando
Bend in the River Regional Park
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Florence Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion School In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Cobden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Brewery In Preston
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Little Falls Depot
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
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...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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