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
The Eight Days in May Protests
For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Apartments
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Enter Marlon Brando
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Florence Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 48 School Near Delano
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Milford Monument
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion School In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
The End of the Line in Currie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Dotson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Wasioja
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lost Highway 61
Little Falls Depot
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Franconia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 6 School in New Sweden
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Red Wing Iron Works
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Ottawa
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Cobden
Bend in the River Regional Park
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Old Brewery In Preston
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taylor House In Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Duluth Homestead Project
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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