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
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
Florence Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Sandstone
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Cobden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moving Old Hibbing
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Meyer School In St Augusta
Green Lake Mounds
The Almelund Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Franconia
The Duluth Homestead Project
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lost Highway 61
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Visiting Golden Gate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Red Wing Iron Works
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Little Falls Depot
Old Brewery In Preston
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Milford Monument
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Ottawa
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Little Marais Inn
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 48 School Near Delano
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Randall Cooperative Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Enter Marlon Brando
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Endion School In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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