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 Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Robbinsdale Library
Wilder Public Baths
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Ruins of Sawyer School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Dotson
The Little Marais Inn
District 48 School Near Delano
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Milford Monument
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Brewery In Preston
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Wasioja
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Visiting Golden Gate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Church of the Holy Cross
Florence Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moving Old Hibbing
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Franconia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Daniel Piper House in Medford
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Cobden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Green Lake Mounds
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lost Highway 61
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Old School In Wolverton
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
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...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

