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