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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Apartments
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
Exploring Sandstone
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Old Wadena
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Church of the Holy Cross
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Franconia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome to Hanska
Old Brewery In Preston
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Ottawa
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jordan Brewery Complex
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
The Milford Monument
Meyer School In St Augusta
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Green Lake Mounds
Lost Highway 61
Moderne New Ulm Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Wasioja
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Dotson
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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