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
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Welcome To Cobden
Cobden, Minnesota, was incorporated in 1905. The little railroad town included a bank, creamery...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moving Old Hibbing
Red Wing Iron Works
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Brewery In Preston
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome to Hanska
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lost Highway 61
Finding The Past In Swatara
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moderne New Ulm Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Franconia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Sandstone
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion School In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Church of the Holy Cross
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The End of the Line in Currie
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Dotson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Le Sueur Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hanover Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Green Lake Mounds
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Wasioja
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Meyer School In St Augusta
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Old School In Wolverton
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Enter Marlon Brando
The Little Marais Inn
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul