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 Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Old School In Wolverton
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Duluth Homestead Project
Little Falls Depot
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Sandstone
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering Quadna Resort
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Wasioja
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Florence Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome to Hanska
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lost Highway 61
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion School In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Le Sueur Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Milford Monument
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moving Old Hibbing
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion Depot In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Ottawa
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Old Wadena
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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