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
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pine Tree Lumber Company was established in Little Falls in 1890. Located on the banks of the...
Red Wing Iron Works
Red Wing Iron Works was founded in 1866 by brothers Benjamin and Daniel Densmore. They found a...
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Meyer School In St Augusta
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Brewery In Preston
Visiting Golden Gate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Little Falls Depot
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hollywood Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Sandstone
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Duluth Homestead Project
The End of the Line in Currie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Le Sueur Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Dotson
The Old School In Wolverton
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lost Highway 61
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hanover Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Little Marais Inn
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Wasioja
Bend in the River Regional Park
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Milford Monument
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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