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
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George H. Christian was a manager at the Washburn-Crosby Company in Minneapolis who worked out a...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Enter Marlon Brando
Florence Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hanover Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Old Wadena
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 48 School Near Delano
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Park In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Milford Monument
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Little Marais Inn
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The End of the Line in Currie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Cobden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome to Hanska
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Old School In Wolverton
The Le Sueur Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Wasioja
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Ottawa
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moving Old Hibbing
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Dotson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 6 School in New Sweden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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