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 Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis was constructed between 1891 and 1893. It was...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Little Falls Depot
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Wasioja
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lost Highway 61
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hanover Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
District 48 School Near Delano
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome to Hanska
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering Quadna Resort
Florence Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Red Wing Iron Works
The End of the Line in Currie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Enter Marlon Brando
Moving Old Hibbing
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Milford Monument
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Cobden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bend in the River Regional Park
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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