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
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Scottish immigrant James G Craigie settled in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, along with his wife...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Travelers come upon the Stewart Creek stone-arch bridge in a bend of an unpaved section of Skyline...
Welcome To Dotson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Little Falls Depot
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Le Sueur Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Sandstone
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Randall Cooperative Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Franconia
The End of the Line in Currie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 48 School Near Delano
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Florence Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Wasioja
The Milford Monument
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Red Wing Iron Works
The Duluth Homestead Project
Oxford Mill Ruin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Cobden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hanover Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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