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
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
The Le Sueur Theater
The Le Sueur Theater on Main Street in Le Sueur, Minnesota, opened in 1884. The building was...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Franconia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Red Wing Iron Works
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lost Highway 61
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Sandstone
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bend in the River Regional Park
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The End of the Line in Currie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Ottawa
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moving Old Hibbing
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Endion School In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Visiting Golden Gate
The Old School In Wolverton
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Old Wadena
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Almelund Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Florence Town Hall
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Milford Monument
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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