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
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Built in 1926, the New Ulm Company Service Station is the best remaining example in a series of...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Brewery In Preston
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 48 School Near Delano
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Oxford Mill Ruin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion School In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Red Wing Iron Works
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Meyer School In St Augusta
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Cobden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moving Old Hibbing
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Florence Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hanover Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome to Hanska
Green Lake Mounds
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lost Highway 61
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Almelund Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Little Falls Depot
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Franconia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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