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
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Little Falls Depot
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Almelund Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lost Highway 61
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Ottawa
Old Brewery In Preston
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moving Old Hibbing
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Le Sueur Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion Depot In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 48 School Near Delano
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Little Marais Inn
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Florence Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Ruins of Sawyer School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Old Wadena
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Dotson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hanover Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Wasioja
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Franconia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Milford Monument
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Endion School In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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