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
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion School In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Green Lake Mounds
Hanover Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Ottawa
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moving Old Hibbing
District 48 School Near Delano
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering Quadna Resort
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lost Highway 61
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Little Falls Depot
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Cobden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Little Marais Inn
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The End of the Line in Currie
The Duluth Homestead Project
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Visiting Golden Gate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
Florence Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Wasioja
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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