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
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
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...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The New Ulm Company Service Station
State Theater In Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Little Falls Depot
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering Quadna Resort
Ruins of Sawyer School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Red Wing Iron Works
Bend in the River Regional Park
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Cobden
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Franconia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The End of the Line in Currie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Wasioja
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Brewery In Preston
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Le Sueur Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Milford Monument
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Florence Town Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Almelund Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Green Lake Mounds
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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