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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
William J Mayo was the older of the two Mayo brothers who, along with five partners, founded the...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District Number 11 in McLeod County was first organized in 1865 to serve the predominantly Czech...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The End of the Line in Currie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Le Sueur Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Sandstone
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Little Marais Inn
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Green Lake Mounds
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Visiting Golden Gate
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Cobden
The Milford Monument
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Old School In Wolverton
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Wasioja
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Little Falls Depot
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion School In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Red Wing Iron Works
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Dotson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Franconia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Almelund Creamery
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Moving Old Hibbing
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hanover Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Dead Good Walks
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
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
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
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