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
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
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...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Oxford Mill Ruin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lost Highway 61
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 48 School Near Delano
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hanover Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Sandstone
Moving Old Hibbing
The Milford Monument
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Dotson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Wasioja
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Red Wing Iron Works
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Le Sueur Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Brewery In Preston
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Enter Marlon Brando
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Little Falls Depot
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Florence Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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