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
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Greater Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Almelund Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 48 School Near Delano
Lost Highway 61
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Dotson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hanover Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
State Theater In Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Sandstone
The Milford Monument
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Oxford Mill Ruin
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Enter Marlon Brando
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion Depot In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Visiting Golden Gate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Wasioja
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Little Falls Depot
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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