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
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gates of Stonebridge
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Greater Minnesota
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Have you ever wondered how Minnesota became known as the land of 10,000 lakes? Every Minnesotan...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The End of the Line in Currie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Meyer School In St Augusta
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Incline Railway
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Florence Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Le Sueur Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Almelund Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lost Highway 61
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Milford Monument
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Dotson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Wasioja
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion School In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Franconia
Exploring Ottawa
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Sandstone
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome to Hanska
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Brewery In Preston
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hanover Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
State Theater In Hutchinson
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

