The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
Twin Cities Area
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Wasioja
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Franconia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Little Falls Depot
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moving Old Hibbing
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bend in the River Regional Park
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 6 School in New Sweden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion Depot In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Almelund Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Old School In Wolverton
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moderne New Ulm Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Old Wadena
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hanover Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Dotson
Lost Highway 61
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 48 School Near Delano
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Red Wing Iron Works
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Little Marais Inn
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion School In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
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...
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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