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
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
One of the earliest victims of the big blow on Lake Superior in November of 1905 was the steamer...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moving Old Hibbing
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion Depot In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Florence Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hanover Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The End of the Line in Currie
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Franconia
Historic Wasioja
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Milford Monument
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Old Wadena
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moderne New Ulm Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome to Hanska
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion School In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
The Le Sueur Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Green Lake Mounds
State Theater In Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Enter Marlon Brando
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Old School In Wolverton
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Almelund Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Cobden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lost Highway 61
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

