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
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bend in the River Regional Park is located on the former property of the Graves family. The...
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Dotson
The Almelund Creamery
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Red Wing Iron Works
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome to Hanska
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Cobden
Ruins of Sawyer School
Florence Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Franconia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Visiting Golden Gate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Milford Monument
District 48 School Near Delano
The Church of the Holy Cross
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Wasioja
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Green Lake Mounds
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion School In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Enter Marlon Brando
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Sandstone
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Park In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moving Old Hibbing
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lost Highway 61
Meyer School In St Augusta
Little Falls Depot
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Le Sueur Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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