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 William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Greater Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
This gorgeous Second Empire style home in Hastings was built for William Thompson in 1880. Thompson...
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Milford Monument
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Old School In Wolverton
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Sandstone
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hanover Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Cobden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome to Hanska
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Visiting Golden Gate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The End of the Line in Currie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Little Marais Inn
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Florence Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Little Falls Depot
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moving Old Hibbing
The Le Sueur Theater
Lost Highway 61
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
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...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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