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
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Travelers come upon the Stewart Creek stone-arch bridge in a bend of an unpaved section of Skyline...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Archibald mill is located on the banks of the Cannon River in Dundas. Brothers John S. and...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Dotson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion School In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lost Highway 61
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moving Old Hibbing
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Little Marais Inn
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome to Hanska
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Almelund Creamery
Little Falls Depot
District 6 School in New Sweden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Wasioja
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion Depot In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moderne New Ulm Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Sandstone
Visiting Golden Gate
The Milford Monument
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 48 School Near Delano
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Ottawa
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hanover Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown