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
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bend in the River Regional Park is located on the former property of the Graves family. The...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Duluth Homestead Project
State Theater In Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Little Falls Depot
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Enter Marlon Brando
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hollywood Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 48 School Near Delano
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Little Marais Inn
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Wasioja
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hanover Bridge
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Florence Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Franconia
Exploring Ottawa
The Almelund Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lost Highway 61
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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