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 Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
For several years, Tenney held the distinction of being Minnesota’s smallest town. The 2010 census...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Churchill Methodist Church is located in present-day Brookfield Township, Minnesota. The...
Hanover Bridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Cobden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Ruins of Sawyer School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Dotson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Franconia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moderne New Ulm Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Red Wing Iron Works
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome to Hanska
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Ottawa
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering Quadna Resort
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Almelund Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Meyer School In St Augusta
Oxford Mill Ruin
Florence Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Milford Monument
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 6 School in New Sweden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Green Lake Mounds
Old Brewery In Preston
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
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 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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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