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 Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hollywood Town Hall
Florence Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Cobden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Green Lake Mounds
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The End of the Line in Currie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Ottawa
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome to Hanska
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Little Falls Depot
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
State Theater In Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Old Wadena
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Church of the Holy Cross
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Enter Marlon Brando
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Milford Monument
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Franconia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Wasioja
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Little Marais Inn
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion School In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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