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 Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Built in 1926, the New Ulm Company Service Station is the best remaining example in a series of...
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
Historic Franconia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Cobden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Visiting Golden Gate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Enter Marlon Brando
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Oxford Mill Ruin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Sandstone
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Red Wing Iron Works
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome to Hanska
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moving Old Hibbing
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Florence Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
The Milford Monument
Ruins of Sawyer School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Old School In Wolverton
District 48 School Near Delano
Meyer School In St Augusta
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lost Highway 61
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Wasioja
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Little Falls Depot
The Almelund Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Finding The Past In Swatara
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hanover Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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