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
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little was a partner in a Minneapolis-based real estate firm. He didn’t leave behind much...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
Welcome To Cobden
Cobden, Minnesota, was incorporated in 1905. The little railroad town included a bank, creamery...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Brewery In Preston
The Church of the Holy Cross
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Enter Marlon Brando
District 48 School Near Delano
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hanover Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Florence Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Red Wing Iron Works
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Green Lake Mounds
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Visiting Golden Gate
Moving Old Hibbing
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Almelund Creamery
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Little Falls Depot
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Wasioja
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Ottawa
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion School In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Dotson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome to Hanska
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

