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
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg and his wife Dora were the owners of a jewelry store in downtown Minneapolis in the...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Little Marais Inn
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hanover Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion Depot In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Meyer School In St Augusta
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Duluth Homestead Project
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Franconia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Park In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Milford Monument
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
District 6 School in New Sweden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Enter Marlon Brando
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jordan Brewery Complex
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Florence Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome to Hanska
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Oxford Mill Ruin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lost Highway 61
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Sandstone
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Ottawa
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moderne New Ulm Library
Little Falls Depot
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Le Sueur Theater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Red Wing Iron Works
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Visiting Golden Gate
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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