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
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
District 6 School in New Sweden
The District 6 school in New Sweden Township stands in a field surrounded by tall stalks of corn in...
Enter Marlon Brando
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion School In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Ottawa
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Dotson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Old Wadena
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Red Wing Iron Works
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hanover Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Franconia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Green Lake Mounds
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Little Falls Depot
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Florence Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Sandstone
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome to Hanska
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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