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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Greater Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Dotson
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Enter Marlon Brando
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Green Lake Mounds
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Sandstone
Ruins of Sawyer School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moving Old Hibbing
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Ottawa
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Franconia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Florence Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Little Marais Inn
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Meyer School In St Augusta
The End of the Line in Currie
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lost Highway 61
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Duluth Homestead Project
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Brewery In Preston
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Visiting Golden Gate
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome to Hanska
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
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...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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