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
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Memories are made at the lake. Whether you’re lucky enough to go every weekend in the summer...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Red Wing Iron Works
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Ruins of Sawyer School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome to Hanska
Enter Marlon Brando
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Almelund Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lost Highway 61
The Old School In Wolverton
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion School In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Little Marais Inn
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Milford Monument
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Finding The Past In Swatara
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 48 School Near Delano
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Moving Old Hibbing
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Cobden
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Green Lake Mounds
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Visiting Golden Gate
The End of the Line in Currie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moderne New Ulm Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown