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
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two weeks after the James–Younger Gang raided Northfield the gang appeared at the farm of Ole...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Duluth Homestead Project
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Milford Monument
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Randall Cooperative Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Cobden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Green Lake Mounds
District 48 School Near Delano
Meyer School In St Augusta
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Franconia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Brewery In Preston
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering Quadna Resort
Finding The Past In Swatara
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Church of the Holy Cross
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hanover Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Dotson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Old Wadena
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Le Sueur Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Little Marais Inn
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Florence Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome to Hanska
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lost Highway 61
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
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
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul