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
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Greater Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Donald and Carrie Balfour house in Rochester, Minnesota, is a lovely example of how an Arts and...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion School In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The End of the Line in Currie
The Le Sueur Theater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Old Wadena
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
Red Wing Iron Works
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Wasioja
Moderne New Ulm Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Cobden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Visiting Golden Gate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Duluth Homestead Project
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Little Marais Inn
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Old School In Wolverton
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Dotson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Jordan Brewery Complex
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Florence Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hanover Bridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lost Highway 61
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Oxford Mill Ruin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Enter Marlon Brando
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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