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
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Duluth Homestead Project, also known as the Jackson Project, began under the United States...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Endion School In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering Quadna Resort
Florence Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome to Hanska
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lost Highway 61
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Wasioja
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
State Theater In Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moderne New Ulm Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Meyer School In St Augusta
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion Depot In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Ottawa
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Le Sueur Theater
Hanover Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Milford Monument
Historic Franconia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Old School In Wolverton
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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