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
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Enter Marlon Brando
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The End of the Line in Currie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Ottawa
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Ruins of Sawyer School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lost Highway 61
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Church of the Holy Cross
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Florence Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Little Falls Depot
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Finding The Past In Swatara
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Sandstone
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Franconia
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Almelund Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 48 School Near Delano
Visiting Golden Gate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Brewery In Preston
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome to Hanska
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Dotson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Milford Monument
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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