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
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...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wilder Public Baths
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Donald and Carrie Balfour house in Rochester, Minnesota, is a lovely example of how an Arts and...
Florence Town Hall
Florence Town Hall is located along Highway 61 in Frontenac Station. The land to build the town...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hanover Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Sandstone
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Le Sueur Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Little Marais Inn
Ruins of Sawyer School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion Depot In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Little Falls Depot
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Milford Monument
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Red Wing Iron Works
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Old Brewery In Preston
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lost Highway 61
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Oxford Mill Ruin
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Almelund Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
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