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