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
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Adolph Biermann house in Rochester is the oldest documented structure in the Mayowood Historic...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hanover Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome to Hanska
Oxford Mill Ruin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Red Wing Iron Works
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Cobden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion School In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Franconia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Florence Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Visiting Golden Gate
Little Falls Depot
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood Town Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 6 School in New Sweden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Old School In Wolverton
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lost Highway 61
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Sandstone
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
State Theater In Hutchinson
Green Lake Mounds
Moving Old Hibbing
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 48 School Near Delano
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Milford Monument
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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 Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
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...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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