St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
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Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
The Swinford Apartments
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
By the end of the 19th century, dairy was quickly out-pacing wheat as the top agricultural...
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Visiting Golden Gate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Almelund Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Ottawa
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Green Lake Mounds
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Florence Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion School In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Franconia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Little Falls Depot
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The End of the Line in Currie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Brewery In Preston
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moving Old Hibbing
Hanover Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hollywood Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Cobden
Enter Marlon Brando
The Le Sueur Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome to Hanska
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lost Highway 61
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Milford Monument
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jordan Brewery Complex
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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