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
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Constructed in 1869-70, the Metropolitan Hotel once stood at the corner of Washington and Third...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Dotson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome to Hanska
Red Wing Iron Works
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Ottawa
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Franconia
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion School In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Park In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Cobden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Florence Town Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
State Theater In Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jordan Brewery Complex
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Sandstone
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lost Highway 61
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Old Wadena
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Milford Monument
District 48 School Near Delano
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
The Le Sueur Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Little Marais Inn
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
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