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 Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George H. Christian was a manager at the Washburn-Crosby Company in Minneapolis who worked out a...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
Taylor House In Le Sueur
There are quite a few examples of the gorgeous Eastlake-style architecture in Minnesota, but this...
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
Hanover Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Old Wadena
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Florence Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
State Theater In Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion School In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Visiting Golden Gate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Brewery In Preston
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Enter Marlon Brando
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Little Falls Depot
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome to Hanska
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Church of the Holy Cross
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Almelund Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Franconia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Wasioja
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Sandstone
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Oxford Mill Ruin
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Old School In Wolverton
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Little Marais Inn
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Dotson
The Milford Monument
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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