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 Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Greater Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion School In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Milford Monument
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hanover Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering Quadna Resort
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Florence Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Almelund Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Dotson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Wasioja
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Old Wadena
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Little Falls Depot
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Visiting Golden Gate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moving Old Hibbing
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
The End of the Line in Currie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
Enter Marlon Brando
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Cobden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Franconia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Little Marais Inn
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
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
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
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
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul