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 Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Apartments
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Adolph Biermann house in Rochester is the oldest documented structure in the Mayowood Historic...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The End of the Line in Currie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Wasioja
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Almelund Creamery
Little Falls Depot
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Le Sueur Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Florence Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Brewery In Preston
Moving Old Hibbing
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bend in the River Regional Park
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion Depot In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Little Marais Inn
Remembering Quadna Resort
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Ottawa
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Milford Monument
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Green Lake Mounds
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Franconia
Endion School In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Visiting Golden Gate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Meyer School In St Augusta
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hanover Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome to Hanska
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

