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
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Greater Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lost Highway 61
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Little Marais Inn
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Oxford Mill Ruin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Brewery In Preston
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Enter Marlon Brando
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome to Hanska
The Church of the Holy Cross
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Sandstone
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Ottawa
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Meyer School In St Augusta
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Green Lake Mounds
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Almelund Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Red Wing Iron Works
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
State Theater In Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hanover Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bend in the River Regional Park
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Florence Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Franconia
Historic Wasioja
The Milford Monument
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central 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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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