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
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
St Rose of Lima church was built in 1878. The church and its cemetery sit on over an acre of land...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Ottawa
Old Brewery In Preston
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Florence Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Sandstone
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lost Highway 61
Oxford Mill Ruin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Endion School In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moving Old Hibbing
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Little Falls Depot
The Milford Monument
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion Depot In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Finding The Past In Swatara
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
The Old School In Wolverton
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The End of the Line in Currie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Franconia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hanover Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome to Hanska
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Enter Marlon Brando
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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