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
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wilder Public Baths
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome to Hanska
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Finding The Past In Swatara
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hanover Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hollywood Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering Quadna Resort
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Little Falls Depot
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Florence Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Green Lake Mounds
Visiting Golden Gate
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Dotson
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Little Marais Inn
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moving Old Hibbing
The Milford Monument
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Red Wing Iron Works
Enter Marlon Brando
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

