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 Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
Enter Marlon Brando
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Visiting Golden Gate
Little Falls Depot
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Moving Old Hibbing
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Franconia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Milford Monument
District 6 School in New Sweden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Green Lake Mounds
The Duluth Homestead Project
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Wasioja
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Old School In Wolverton
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Randall Cooperative Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion Depot In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Ottawa
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Meyer School In St Augusta
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Le Sueur Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Finding The Past In Swatara
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome to Hanska
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Church of the Holy Cross
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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