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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
If you’ve been to the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota, there’s a good chance you’ve...
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...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 48 School Near Delano
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Dotson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Franconia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moving Old Hibbing
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Le Sueur Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome to Hanska
The Little Marais Inn
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moderne New Ulm Library
Florence Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Cobden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Hanover Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Sandstone
Lost Highway 61
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Almelund Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Wasioja
Little Falls Depot
Endion School In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The End of the Line in Currie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Ottawa
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Brewery In Preston
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Endion Depot In Duluth
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac 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 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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