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
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wilder Public Baths
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
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...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Almelund Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Visiting Golden Gate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Meyer School In St Augusta
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Franconia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Cobden
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Finding The Past In Swatara
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome to Hanska
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Old Wadena
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Endion School In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Hanover Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moving Old Hibbing
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Milford Monument
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lost Highway 61
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Le Sueur Theater
Florence Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac 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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In 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