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 Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Taylor House In Le Sueur
There are quite a few examples of the gorgeous Eastlake-style architecture in Minnesota, but this...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
In 1929, the Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge was established in Lanesboro, Minnesota. Membership...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Florence Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 6 School in New Sweden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lost Highway 61
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
District 48 School Near Delano
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Milford Monument
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jordan Brewery Complex
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
Little Falls Depot
The Old School In Wolverton
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Sandstone
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hanover Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Almelund Creamery
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Dotson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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