St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
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Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
The Milford Monument
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Little Falls Depot
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Le Sueur Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Cobden
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Ottawa
Endion School In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Church of the Holy Cross
Visiting Golden Gate
The Duluth Homestead Project
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Dotson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to Hanska
Red Wing Iron Works
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bend in the River Regional Park
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Brewery In Preston
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Almelund Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood Town Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lost Highway 61
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
Florence Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Green Lake Mounds
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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