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
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Sandstone
The city of Sandstone, Minnesota, was platted and incorporated in 1887. The area was a major hub...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Endion School In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome to Hanska
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Green Lake Mounds
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Visiting Golden Gate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lost Highway 61
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Enter Marlon Brando
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hanover Bridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Cobden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jordan Brewery Complex
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moderne New Ulm Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
Daniel Piper House in Medford
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Ottawa
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Wasioja
The Almelund Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moving Old Hibbing
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Le Sueur Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hollywood Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Red Wing Iron Works
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
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
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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