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 Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 48 School Near Delano
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Florence Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Little Marais Inn
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Old School In Wolverton
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Red Wing Iron Works
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Ottawa
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion School In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Wasioja
The Almelund Creamery
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hanover Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lost Highway 61
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bend in the River Regional Park
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Old Wadena
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Milford Monument
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Sandstone
Jordan Brewery Complex
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
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