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 Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
One of the earliest victims of the big blow on Lake Superior in November of 1905 was the steamer...
The Old School In Wolverton
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Old Wadena
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hanover Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering Quadna Resort
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Sandstone
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The End of the Line in Currie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
The Milford Monument
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion Depot In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Wasioja
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lost Highway 61
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Duluth Homestead Project
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion School In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome to Hanska
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Cobden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Red Wing Iron Works
State Theater In Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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