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
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Apartments
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
The Old School In Wolverton
Old Brewery In Preston
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 6 School in New Sweden
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Dotson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Cobden
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Milford Monument
Historic Wasioja
The Le Sueur Theater
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion School In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Visiting Golden Gate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Enter Marlon Brando
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Sandstone
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hanover Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Incline Railway
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Finding The Past In Swatara
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
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