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
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
District 48 School Near Delano
It really hurts to see this old schoolhouse so neglected 😟 The Franklin Township (Minnesota)...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moving Old Hibbing
The Church of the Holy Cross
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Almelund Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Wasioja
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hanover Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Cobden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Ruins of Sawyer School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Ottawa
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Sandstone
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Endion School In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Duluth Homestead Project
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Milford Monument
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Old Wadena
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Florence Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

