As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Twin Cities Area
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Greater Minnesota
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Lincoln Branch of the Duluth Public Library opened in 1917 thanks to $30,000 from Andrew...
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Cobden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Duluth Homestead Project
Enter Marlon Brando
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
District 6 School in New Sweden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Little Marais Inn
Bend in the River Regional Park
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Dotson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion School In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 48 School Near Delano
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Ottawa
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Le Sueur Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The End of the Line in Currie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering Quadna Resort
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lost Highway 61
Historic Franconia
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Green Lake Mounds
Red Wing Iron Works
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
State Theater In Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
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...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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