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
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
William J Mayo was the older of the two Mayo brothers who, along with five partners, founded the...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Welcome to Hanska
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
District 48 School Near Delano
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Almelund Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Old School In Wolverton
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Wasioja
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Brewery In Preston
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Little Marais Inn
The End of the Line in Currie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lost Highway 61
Meyer School In St Augusta
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Le Sueur Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Dotson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Florence Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
District 6 School in New Sweden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
State Theater In Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion School In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moving Old Hibbing
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
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