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 Saint Paul Hotel
The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gates of Stonebridge
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Finding The Past In Swatara
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Ottawa
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Old School In Wolverton
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Sandstone
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lost Highway 61
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Visiting Golden Gate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Red Wing Iron Works
Hanover Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The End of the Line in Currie
The Church of the Holy Cross
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
State Theater In Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
District 48 School Near Delano
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Cobden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Green Lake Mounds
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion School In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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