The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
Twin Cities Area
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Beaver Bay is the oldest white settlement along the North Shore of Lake Superior. It was...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Dotson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Church of the Holy Cross
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Enter Marlon Brando
The Almelund Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Green Lake Mounds
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Old Brewery In Preston
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moving Old Hibbing
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Little Falls Depot
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Florence Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 48 School Near Delano
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bend in the River Regional Park
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Franconia
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Milford Monument
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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