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 Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Travelers come upon the Stewart Creek stone-arch bridge in a bend of an unpaved section of Skyline...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Franconia
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Visiting Golden Gate
Florence Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Green Lake Mounds
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Little Falls Depot
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Oxford Mill Ruin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lost Highway 61
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Milford Monument
Meyer School In St Augusta
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Little Marais Inn
Hanover Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Le Sueur Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Dotson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Finding The Past In Swatara
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion Depot In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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 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...

