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 Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Milford Monument
Old Brewery In Preston
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion Depot In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The End of the Line in Currie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Old Wadena
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Green Lake Mounds
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering Quadna Resort
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome to Hanska
District 48 School Near Delano
Enter Marlon Brando
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jordan Brewery Complex
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Little Marais Inn
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Franconia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Florence Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Little Falls Depot
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Cobden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hanover Bridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Visiting Golden Gate
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Wasioja
Endion School In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
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...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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