Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
Welcome to Hanska
Hanska was supposed to be a quick stop on my way from Mankato to Sleepy Eye. I planned to get a few...
Endion School In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Duluth Homestead Project
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
Oxford Mill Ruin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 48 School Near Delano
Hanover Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Green Lake Mounds
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Wasioja
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Red Wing Iron Works
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Sandstone
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Visiting Golden Gate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Le Sueur Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
State Theater In Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lost Highway 61
Remembering Quadna Resort
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Milford Monument
Hollywood Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Little Falls Depot
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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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