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
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Enter Marlon Brando
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lost Highway 61
Ruins of Sawyer School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Old School In Wolverton
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 6 School in New Sweden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Dotson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The End of the Line in Currie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Wasioja
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Almelund Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering Quadna Resort
Visiting Golden Gate
Little Falls Depot
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Franconia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Sandstone
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Milford Monument
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome to Hanska
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

