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
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Duluth Homestead Project
The End of the Line in Currie
Hanover Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moving Old Hibbing
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
Florence Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Red Wing Iron Works
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hollywood Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Sandstone
Lost Highway 61
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Dotson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Franconia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Little Falls Depot
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Milford Monument
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Le Sueur Theater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Almelund Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Little Marais Inn
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 48 School Near Delano
Green Lake Mounds
State Theater In Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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