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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Beaver Bay is the oldest white settlement along the North Shore of Lake Superior. It was...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Le Sueur Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Enter Marlon Brando
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lost Highway 61
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Cobden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Almelund Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Dotson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Green Lake Mounds
Little Falls Depot
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
State Theater In Hutchinson
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Florence Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Meyer School In St Augusta
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Old Wadena
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Milford Monument
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moderne New Ulm Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Finding The Past In Swatara
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Visiting Golden Gate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 48 School Near Delano
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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