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 Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
Florence Town Hall is located along Highway 61 in Frontenac Station. The land to build the town...
Welcome to Hanska
Hanska was supposed to be a quick stop on my way from Mankato to Sleepy Eye. I planned to get a few...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moderne New Ulm Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Franconia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Dotson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Le Sueur Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Brewery In Preston
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Milford Monument
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Red Wing Iron Works
Little Falls Depot
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Almelund Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering Quadna Resort
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
The Duluth Homestead Project
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Green Lake Mounds
The Church of the Holy Cross
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lost Highway 61
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hanover Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moving Old Hibbing
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
State Theater In Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Old School In Wolverton
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Ottawa
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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