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
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
In March 1963, the Twin Cities were rocked by a shocking and brutal crime – the murder of Carol...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Enter Marlon Brando
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Little Falls Depot
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 6 School in New Sweden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Duluth Homestead Project
The End of the Line in Currie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Hanover Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 48 School Near Delano
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Franconia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Dotson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion Depot In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Florence Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Almelund Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Wasioja
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Brewery In Preston
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Green Lake Mounds
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
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
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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 Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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
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