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
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
Little Falls Depot
Construction started on the railroad depot in Little Falls in 1899. It was designed by Cass Gilbert...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Little Marais Inn
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion School In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering Quadna Resort
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Dotson
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hanover Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moving Old Hibbing
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Cobden
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Red Wing Iron Works
Visiting Golden Gate
Florence Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jordan Brewery Complex
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Sandstone
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Almelund Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lost Highway 61
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion Depot In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
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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