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 Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George H. Christian was a manager at the Washburn-Crosby Company in Minneapolis who worked out a...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Harry A. Subilia was an Italian immigrant who opened the first distillery in New Ulm, Minnesota. He...
Endion School In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The End of the Line in Currie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion Depot In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Old Brewery In Preston
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Red Wing Iron Works
The Almelund Creamery
Florence Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Old School In Wolverton
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Franconia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome to Hanska
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Ottawa
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Dotson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Sandstone
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Dead Good Walks
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown