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
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Vermont-native Almond A. White came to Minnesota after the Civil War and settled in Brainerd for a...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Beaver Bay is the oldest white settlement along the North Shore of Lake Superior. It was...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Old School In Wolverton
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hanover Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
The Le Sueur Theater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Florence Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Milford Monument
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Little Falls Depot
Lost Highway 61
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Finding The Past In Swatara
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Cobden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Red Wing Iron Works
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Little Marais Inn
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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