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 Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The End of the Line in Currie
Florence Town Hall
The Milford Monument
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Franconia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Endion School In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome to Hanska
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion Depot In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Red Wing Iron Works
Jordan Brewery Complex
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Finding The Past In Swatara
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering Quadna Resort
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Sandstone
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Wasioja
Ruins of Sawyer School
District 48 School Near Delano
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Enter Marlon Brando
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
The Little Marais Inn
Hanover Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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 Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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