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
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Visiting Golden Gate
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Little Marais Inn
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Little Falls Depot
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hanover Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Franconia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Oxford Mill Ruin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Old School In Wolverton
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Ottawa
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Milford Monument
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Enter Marlon Brando
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion School In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Sandstone
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate 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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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