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
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Franconia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hanover Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Visiting Golden Gate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Le Sueur Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion School In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
State Theater In Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Almelund Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Red Wing Iron Works
Moderne New Ulm Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Brewery In Preston
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Ottawa
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Green Lake Mounds
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 6 School in New Sweden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wandering Around The Toimi School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The End of the Line in Currie
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Little Marais Inn
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moving Old Hibbing
Enter Marlon Brando
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Wasioja
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Sandstone
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
The Milford Monument
Little Falls Depot
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown