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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
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...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
Welcome To Cobden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Wasioja
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Le Sueur Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood Town Hall
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Brewery In Preston
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Milford Monument
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Red Wing Iron Works
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Franconia
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moving Old Hibbing
The End of the Line in Currie
The Old School In Wolverton
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome to Hanska
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Remembering Quadna Resort
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Ottawa
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hanover Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Florence Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 6 School in New Sweden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Green Lake Mounds
Little Falls Depot
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 48 School Near Delano
Ruins of Sawyer School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Duluth Homestead Project
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Little Marais Inn
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Almelund Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Oxford Mill Ruin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Dotson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
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
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In 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