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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Ottawa
Endion School In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Old School In Wolverton
Lost Highway 61
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Little Marais Inn
Hanover Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Duluth Homestead Project
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moderne New Ulm Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Le Sueur Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Franconia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Cobden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wandering Around The Toimi School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
Daniel Piper House in Medford
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Florence Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Enter Marlon Brando
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Sandstone
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Brewery In Preston
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
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