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
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
Red Wing Iron Works was founded in 1866 by brothers Benjamin and Daniel Densmore. They found a...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Munger Terrace has been a landmark in Duluth’s Central Hillside neighborhood since the building was...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Florence Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Franconia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Le Sueur Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Brewery In Preston
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Little Marais Inn
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 6 School in New Sweden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Finding The Past In Swatara
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hanover Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Milford Monument
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Meyer School In St Augusta
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Endion School In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Cobden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Little Falls Depot
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lost Highway 61
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Dotson
Green Lake Mounds
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The End of the Line in Currie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
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