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 Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was founded in January 1897. The church...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Little Marais Inn
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Little Falls Depot
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lost Highway 61
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hanover Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Old Brewery In Preston
District 48 School Near Delano
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Dotson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Le Sueur Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Sandstone
The Almelund Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Ruins of Sawyer School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Visiting Golden Gate
The Duluth Homestead Project
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Enter Marlon Brando
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Franconia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Florence Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wandering Around The Toimi School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering Quadna Resort
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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