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...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Little Falls Depot
Endion School In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Sandstone
Hanover Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Milford Monument
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Florence Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Brewery In Preston
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Visiting Golden Gate
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Le Sueur Theater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Little Marais Inn
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Wasioja
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Enter Marlon Brando
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moving Old Hibbing
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Ottawa
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lost Highway 61
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Franconia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 6 School in New Sweden
Green Lake Mounds
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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