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