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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Franconia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Enter Marlon Brando
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Florence Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome to Hanska
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Church of the Holy Cross
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Cobden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Milford Monument
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion Depot In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Little Falls Depot
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering Quadna Resort
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Old School In Wolverton
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lost Highway 61
Hanover Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 48 School Near Delano
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Wasioja
Oxford Mill Ruin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

