The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
Twin Cities Area
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Park is 37 acres of space along Miller Creek in Duluth’s west end. Today, the park includes...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Dotson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Sandstone
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 48 School Near Delano
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lost Highway 61
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Florence Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Church of the Holy Cross
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Green Lake Mounds
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moderne New Ulm Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The End of the Line in Currie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Franconia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Ottawa
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hanover Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Almelund Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Le Sueur Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
State Theater In Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Wasioja
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Cobden
Moving Old Hibbing
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Little Marais Inn
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion School In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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