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
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
Exploring Sandstone
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lost Highway 61
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Little Marais Inn
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Florence Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Old Brewery In Preston
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Visiting Golden Gate
Green Lake Mounds
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hanover Bridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 48 School Near Delano
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Franconia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Ruins of Sawyer School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Ottawa
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Cobden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering Quadna Resort
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Old School In Wolverton
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Almelund Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

