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 William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
The Almelund Creamery
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Wasioja
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hanover Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Little Marais Inn
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Red Wing Iron Works
Meyer School In St Augusta
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
State Theater In Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Cobden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
District 48 School Near Delano
The Le Sueur Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Remembering Quadna Resort
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moving Old Hibbing
Finding The Past In Swatara
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lost Highway 61
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Sandstone
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The End of the Line in Currie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Ottawa
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Moderne New Ulm Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Little Falls Depot
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Old School In Wolverton
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Article Archive
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
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Old Brewery In Preston