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
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Le Sueur Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Dotson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Florence Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bend in the River Regional Park
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
State Theater In Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Brewery In Preston
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Wasioja
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Franconia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Remembering Quadna Resort
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lost Highway 61
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Ottawa
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome to Hanska
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Almelund Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Little Falls Depot
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Old School In Wolverton
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Little Marais Inn
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Green Lake Mounds
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Dead Good Walks
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...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
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...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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