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 Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gates of Stonebridge
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Greater Minnesota
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Beaver Bay is the oldest white settlement along the North Shore of Lake Superior. It was...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Little Marais Inn
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Little Falls Depot
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Franconia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Ottawa
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Red Wing Iron Works
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Duluth Homestead Project
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Enter Marlon Brando
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Visiting Golden Gate
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Brewery In Preston
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Wasioja
Moving Old Hibbing
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Milford Monument
Hanover Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The End of the Line in Currie
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ruins of Sawyer School
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
State Theater In Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Dotson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
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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