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
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
District 48 School Near Delano
It really hurts to see this old schoolhouse so neglected 😟 The Franklin Township (Minnesota)...
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Green Lake Mounds
The Almelund Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion School In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Sandstone
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Brewery In Preston
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Historic Wasioja
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
State Theater In Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moving Old Hibbing
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Old Wadena
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Le Sueur Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome to Hanska
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Meyer School In St Augusta
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Finding The Past In Swatara
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Ottawa
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Red Wing Iron Works
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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