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 Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Apartments
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
This gorgeous Second Empire style home in Hastings was built for William Thompson in 1880. Thompson...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Finding The Past In Swatara
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hanover Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Le Sueur Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Almelund Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moving Old Hibbing
The End of the Line in Currie
The Church of the Holy Cross
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Franconia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Florence Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Red Wing Iron Works
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Wasioja
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Green Lake Mounds
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Endion School In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Dotson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome to Hanska
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Ottawa
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering Quadna Resort
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Little Falls Depot
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Sandstone
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Brewery In Preston
The Milford Monument
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 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...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
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
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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