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
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Located in Robbinsdale, the international-style Terrace Theatre opened on May 23, 1951. At the...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bend in the River Regional Park is located on the former property of the Graves family. The...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 48 School Near Delano
Florence Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Oxford Mill Ruin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hanover Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Little Falls Depot
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Old Brewery In Preston
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Enter Marlon Brando
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Little Marais Inn
The Milford Monument
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Almelund Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Green Lake Mounds
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Old Wadena
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Wasioja
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Old School In Wolverton
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Sandstone
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion School In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Franconia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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