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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District Number 11 in McLeod County was first organized in 1865 to serve the predominantly Czech...
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Park In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hanover Bridge
Little Falls Depot
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion Depot In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Almelund Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moderne New Ulm Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Visiting Golden Gate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Ottawa
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Brewery In Preston
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Milford Monument
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Endion School In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Green Lake Mounds
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Red Wing Iron Works
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Duluth Homestead Project
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
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...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Old Brewery In Preston