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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Robbinsdale Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Franconia
The Old School In Wolverton
Enter Marlon Brando
Finding The Past In Swatara
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Old Wadena
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Brewery In Preston
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bend in the River Regional Park
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Little Marais Inn
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Florence Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Sandstone
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moving Old Hibbing
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lost Highway 61
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hanover Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Duluth Homestead Project
Little Falls Depot
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Milford Monument
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Le Sueur Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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