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
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Robbinsdale Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Cobden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Church of the Holy Cross
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Brewery In Preston
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Visiting Golden Gate
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Sandstone
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion School In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Le Sueur Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Florence Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Little Falls Depot
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The End of the Line in Currie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Bend in the River Regional Park
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Red Wing Iron Works
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lost Highway 61
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Franconia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Enter Marlon Brando
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Old School In Wolverton
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Finding The Past In Swatara
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome to Hanska
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Ottawa
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
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