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...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Wasioja
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Florence Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Endion School In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering Quadna Resort
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Finding The Past In Swatara
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Brewery In Preston
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Green Lake Mounds
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Milford Monument
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moderne New Ulm Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Cobden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Duluth Homestead Project
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Little Falls Depot
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Visiting Golden Gate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Dotson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome to Hanska
Red Wing Iron Works
The Almelund Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 6 School in New Sweden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 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?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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