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
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
If you’ve been to the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota, there’s a good chance you’ve...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Cobden
District 48 School Near Delano
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Green Lake Mounds
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jordan Brewery Complex
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Duluth Homestead Project
The End of the Line in Currie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Ruins of Sawyer School
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hanover Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Little Falls Depot
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Le Sueur Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Old School In Wolverton
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Ottawa
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Wasioja
The Almelund Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Moving Old Hibbing
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lost Highway 61
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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