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
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Apartments
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
St Rose of Lima church was built in 1878. The church and its cemetery sit on over an acre of land...
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bend in the River Regional Park
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The End of the Line in Currie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lost Highway 61
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Le Sueur Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 6 School in New Sweden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Brewery In Preston
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering Quadna Resort
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Milford Monument
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Franconia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Little Marais Inn
Florence Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moving Old Hibbing
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Visiting Golden Gate
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion School In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Little Falls Depot
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Green Lake Mounds
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Almelund Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Old Wadena
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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