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
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Landmark Center In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Old Brewery In Preston
The Preston Brewery is located at the foot of a bluff on the banks of the Root River. Brewing...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering Quadna Resort
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The End of the Line in Currie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Franconia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lost Highway 61
Red Wing Iron Works
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Ottawa
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Ruins of Sawyer School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hanover Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Little Marais Inn
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Oxford Mill Ruin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Enter Marlon Brando
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion School In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 6 School in New Sweden
State Theater In Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 48 School Near Delano
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Milford Monument
Green Lake Mounds
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
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
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
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...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown
