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
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Milford Monument
Ruins of Sawyer School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Oxford Mill Ruin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Duluth Homestead Project
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Remembering Quadna Resort
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Old Wadena
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Green Lake Mounds
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hanover Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Cobden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion School In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Ottawa
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Little Marais Inn
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Florence Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central 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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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