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
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Sandstone
The city of Sandstone, Minnesota, was platted and incorporated in 1887. The area was a major hub...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 48 School Near Delano
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Old Wadena
Enter Marlon Brando
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Green Lake Mounds
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Le Sueur Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jordan Brewery Complex
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lost Highway 61
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Franconia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Little Marais Inn
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bend in the River Regional Park
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering Quadna Resort
Florence Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Little Falls Depot
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Dotson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Finding The Past In Swatara
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Visiting Golden Gate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion School In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Old Brewery In Preston
Hanover Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome to Hanska
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Milford Monument
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Wasioja
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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