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 Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Historic Wasioja
Red Wing Iron Works
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Brewery In Preston
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Sandstone
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood Town Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome to Hanska
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jordan Brewery Complex
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hanover Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Cobden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Dotson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Franconia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion Depot In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion School In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Ruins of Sawyer School
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Le Sueur Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Little Marais Inn
Green Lake Mounds
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 6 School in New Sweden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Almelund Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
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...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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