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 Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Greater Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Brewery In Preston
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Cobden
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Milford Monument
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Old Wadena
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Enter Marlon Brando
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Little Falls Depot
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Le Sueur Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Sandstone
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Wasioja
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Dotson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome to Hanska
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Franconia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Old School In Wolverton
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion Depot In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The End of the Line in Currie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hanover Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Green Lake Mounds
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
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
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
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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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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