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
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Built in 1926, the New Ulm Company Service Station is the best remaining example in a series of...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Dotson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Enter Marlon Brando
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Ottawa
Lost Highway 61
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moderne New Ulm Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Sandstone
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Duluth Homestead Project
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Florence Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome to Hanska
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion School In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Cobden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Wasioja
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Franconia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 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?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
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