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...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Saint Paul Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion School In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Cobden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Franconia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Green Lake Mounds
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Visiting Golden Gate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Almelund Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
District 48 School Near Delano
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Milford Monument
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Dotson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Sandstone
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Enter Marlon Brando
The End of the Line in Currie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Florence Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lost Highway 61
Red Wing Iron Works
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Ottawa
Bend in the River Regional Park
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
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...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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