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
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Enter Marlon Brando
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Old School In Wolverton
Florence Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Visiting Golden Gate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Old Brewery In Preston
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Historic Wasioja
District 6 School in New Sweden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Finding The Past In Swatara
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hanover Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Cobden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hollywood Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Red Wing Iron Works
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Green Lake Mounds
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The End of the Line in Currie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Almelund Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Ottawa
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering Quadna Resort
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Sandstone
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome to Hanska
The Milford Monument
The Le Sueur Theater
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
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...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s 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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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