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
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edwin H Hewitt was one of Minnesota’s most widely-known architects of the 20th century. Born in Red...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Hollywood Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Little Falls Depot
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lost Highway 61
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Meyer School In St Augusta
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Sandstone
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Le Sueur Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Dotson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Wasioja
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hanover Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Milford Monument
State Theater In Hutchinson
Green Lake Mounds
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The End of the Line in Currie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Brewery In Preston
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moderne New Ulm Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion School In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Enter Marlon Brando
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Franconia
Moving Old Hibbing
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

