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
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Built in 1926, the New Ulm Company Service Station is the best remaining example in a series of...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Meyer School In St Augusta
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Old School In Wolverton
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Cobden
Florence Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Sandstone
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Little Marais Inn
Remembering Quadna Resort
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Ottawa
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Visiting Golden Gate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Franconia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moderne New Ulm Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Enter Marlon Brando
Bend in the River Regional Park
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Milford Monument
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The End of the Line in Currie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moving Old Hibbing
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hanover Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion School In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Little Falls Depot
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome to Hanska
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Dotson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Dead Good Walks
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
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
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
Old Brewery In Preston