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
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
This beauty was built in 1914 and is St Paul’s largest Prairie Style house at just under 3,000...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gates of Stonebridge
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Meyer School In St Augusta
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Little Marais Inn
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Dotson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lost Highway 61
The End of the Line in Currie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Old Brewery In Preston
Little Falls Depot
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Enter Marlon Brando
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Florence Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Wasioja
Visiting Golden Gate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood Town Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Milford Monument
Endion School In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Sandstone
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moving Old Hibbing
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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