The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
Twin Cities Area
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two weeks after the James–Younger Gang raided Northfield the gang appeared at the farm of Ole...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 6 School in New Sweden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Cobden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Franconia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Green Lake Mounds
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Visiting Golden Gate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Church of the Holy Cross
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Old School In Wolverton
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Sandstone
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Almelund Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion School In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Enter Marlon Brando
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Ottawa
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hanover Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Red Wing Iron Works
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jordan Brewery Complex
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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