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
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Greater Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
This gorgeous Second Empire style home in Hastings was built for William Thompson in 1880. Thompson...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Cobden
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Franconia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Sandstone
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lost Highway 61
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Old School In Wolverton
Florence Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Dotson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Milford Monument
Little Falls Depot
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Visiting Golden Gate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Little Marais Inn
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 48 School Near Delano
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Brewery In Preston
The End of the Line in Currie
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moving Old Hibbing
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Oxford Mill Ruin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Ottawa
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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
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
Old Brewery In Preston