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
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hanover Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
The Milford Monument
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Cobden
The Almelund Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Duluth Homestead Project
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Ottawa
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moving Old Hibbing
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Florence Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Green Lake Mounds
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moderne New Ulm Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion School In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The End of the Line in Currie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Red Wing Iron Works
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Little Marais Inn
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Dotson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Le Sueur Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Wasioja
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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