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 Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Florence Town Hall
Florence Town Hall is located along Highway 61 in Frontenac Station. The land to build the town...
Welcome to Hanska
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The End of the Line in Currie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hanover Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion School In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Little Falls Depot
Oxford Mill Ruin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Meyer School In St Augusta
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Franconia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Almelund Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Visiting Golden Gate
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Le Sueur Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Ruins of Sawyer School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Little Marais Inn
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion Depot In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Ottawa
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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