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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Enter Marlon Brando
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
The Milford Monument
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moving Old Hibbing
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Cobden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hanover Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Le Sueur Theater
Lost Highway 61
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion School In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome to Hanska
District 48 School Near Delano
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering Quadna Resort
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Green Lake Mounds
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Church of the Holy Cross
The End of the Line in Currie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Dotson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
Little Falls Depot
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Wasioja
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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