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...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wilder Public Baths
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion School In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Finding The Past In Swatara
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 48 School Near Delano
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Wasioja
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Enter Marlon Brando
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Franconia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Dotson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hanover Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Sandstone
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Oxford Mill Ruin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Visiting Golden Gate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Brewery In Preston
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Little Marais Inn
The End of the Line in Currie
Ruins of Sawyer School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
Meyer School In St Augusta
Florence Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
The Duluth Homestead Project
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bend in the River Regional Park
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lost Highway 61
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia 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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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