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 Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Apartments
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Red Wing Iron Works
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Church of the Holy Cross
Oxford Mill Ruin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Wasioja
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Little Falls Depot
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Finding The Past In Swatara
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Enter Marlon Brando
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Franconia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Ruins of Sawyer School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome to Hanska
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lost Highway 61
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
Hanover Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Le Sueur Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Ottawa
The End of the Line in Currie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion School In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Cobden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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