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
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
This beauty was built in 1914 and is St Paul’s largest Prairie Style house at just under 3,000...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wilder Public Baths
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Red Wing Iron Works
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moving Old Hibbing
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Le Sueur Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Visiting Golden Gate
The End of the Line in Currie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lost Highway 61
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Florence Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 48 School Near Delano
Hanover Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Little Marais Inn
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Little Falls Depot
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lundring Service Station in Canby
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...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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