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...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Exploring Sandstone
The city of Sandstone, Minnesota, was platted and incorporated in 1887. The area was a major hub...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Milford Monument
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Little Marais Inn
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Dotson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Le Sueur Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hanover Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Moving Old Hibbing
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome to Hanska
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Visiting Golden Gate
District 48 School Near Delano
The End of the Line in Currie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Cobden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...

