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 Saint Paul Hotel
The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
In 1957, trucks loaded with prefabricated homes rolled along Highway 61 toward a new building site...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood Town Hall
Florence Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Dotson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering Quadna Resort
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Park In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Red Wing Iron Works
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The End of the Line in Currie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome to Hanska
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion School In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Little Marais Inn
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Le Sueur Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Wasioja
Little Falls Depot
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Almelund Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moderne New Ulm Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Cobden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Milford Monument
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lost Highway 61
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Brewery In Preston
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Franconia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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