The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
Twin Cities Area
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Greater Minnesota
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pine Tree Lumber Company was established in Little Falls in 1890. Located on the banks of the...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Old School In Wolverton
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Wasioja
Historic Franconia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Old Wadena
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 48 School Near Delano
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome to Hanska
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Little Marais Inn
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lost Highway 61
Enter Marlon Brando
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Duluth Homestead Project
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Florence Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Cobden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Red Wing Iron Works
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Almelund Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Ottawa
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Milford Monument
Little Falls Depot
Hanover Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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