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
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The West Bridge in Madelia, Minnesota, was built in 1908. It is the earliest remaining example of a...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering Quadna Resort
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Sandstone
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Dotson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Le Sueur Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bend in the River Regional Park
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lost Highway 61
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Old School In Wolverton
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome to Hanska
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moderne New Ulm Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hanover Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The End of the Line in Currie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Little Marais Inn
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Old Wadena
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Florence Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Duluth Homestead Project
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Ottawa
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Cobden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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