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
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Apartments
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
The Milford Monument
Enter Marlon Brando
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bend in the River Regional Park
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Endion School In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lost Highway 61
The Little Marais Inn
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Wasioja
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Dotson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Florence Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Old School In Wolverton
The Almelund Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Ottawa
The Church of the Holy Cross
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering Quadna Resort
The End of the Line in Currie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Cobden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Green Lake Mounds
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Visiting Golden Gate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Little Falls Depot
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Finding The Past In Swatara
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Sandstone
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Brewery In Preston
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jordan Brewery Complex
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
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
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

