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
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minneapolis has many beautiful homes, but the Gale mansion is easily one of my top three. I love...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
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...
Welcome To Cobden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Old School In Wolverton
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Almelund Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Wasioja
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Ottawa
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Brewery In Preston
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Milford Monument
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hanover Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Little Falls Depot
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Sandstone
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Green Lake Mounds
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion School In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lost Highway 61
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Florence Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Franconia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Little Marais Inn
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

