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
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
This beauty was built in 1914 and is St Paul’s largest Prairie Style house at just under 3,000...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Sandstone
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Brewery In Preston
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Wasioja
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome to Hanska
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Little Falls Depot
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Dotson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Enter Marlon Brando
Meyer School In St Augusta
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Little Marais Inn
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Duluth Homestead Project
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Ottawa
Bend in the River Regional Park
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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