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
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Hollywood Town Hall
The Carver County District Number 76 School was built in 1906 and opened for classes in the fall of...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Almelund Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Milford Monument
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The End of the Line in Currie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Brewery In Preston
Hanover Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Ottawa
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome to Hanska
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Ruins of Sawyer School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 6 School in New Sweden
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Enter Marlon Brando
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Florence Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Dotson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Little Marais Inn
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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