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
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Avenue, located on the east side of St. Cloud, became part of the Jefferson Highway system...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two weeks after the James–Younger Gang raided Northfield the gang appeared at the farm of Ole...
Red Wing Iron Works
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Wasioja
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Little Marais Inn
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lost Highway 61
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
State Theater In Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Almelund Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hanover Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
District 48 School Near Delano
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Milford Monument
The Church of the Holy Cross
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moving Old Hibbing
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Ottawa
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Old Wadena
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Old School In Wolverton
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Cobden
Enter Marlon Brando
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Franconia
Little Falls Depot
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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