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