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
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Old School In Wolverton
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jordan Brewery Complex
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Little Marais Inn
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bend in the River Regional Park
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Florence Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
State Theater In Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Cobden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Wasioja
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Old Wadena
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering Quadna Resort
Little Falls Depot
Moderne New Ulm Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Ottawa
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Ruins of Sawyer School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Enter Marlon Brando
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Church of the Holy Cross
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Old Brewery In Preston
Red Wing Iron Works
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Almelund Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Franconia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion School In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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