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
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Construction on the Hamm Building in downtown St Paul began in 1915 and was completed in 1920. The...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Built in 1926, the New Ulm Company Service Station is the best remaining example in a series of...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two weeks after the James–Younger Gang raided Northfield the gang appeared at the farm of Ole...
Hollywood Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Wasioja
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Almelund Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Le Sueur Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Finding The Past In Swatara
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering Quadna Resort
Little Falls Depot
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Dotson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Moving Old Hibbing
Ruins of Sawyer School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moderne New Ulm Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Park In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Cobden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Sandstone
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion School In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Ottawa
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Red Wing Iron Works
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lost Highway 61
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In 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