The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
Twin Cities Area
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
St Rose of Lima church was built in 1878. The church and its cemetery sit on over an acre of land...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moving Old Hibbing
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Ottawa
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Green Lake Mounds
The End of the Line in Currie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion School In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Cobden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Red Wing Iron Works
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
State Theater In Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Enter Marlon Brando
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Visiting Golden Gate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Florence Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome to Hanska
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Dotson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Little Marais Inn
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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