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
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium was the first medical hospital in Anoka, Minnesota. Dr. James F. Kline opened the...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Little Falls Depot
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hanover Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering Quadna Resort
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 48 School Near Delano
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moderne New Ulm Library
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Green Lake Mounds
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Almelund Creamery
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Sandstone
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Florence Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jordan Brewery Complex
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Ottawa
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion School In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Milford Monument
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lost Highway 61
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown