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
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
The End of the Line in Currie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Little Marais Inn
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Brewery In Preston
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
The Old School In Wolverton
Green Lake Mounds
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Milford Monument
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moving Old Hibbing
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lost Highway 61
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Le Sueur Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Wasioja
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Red Wing Iron Works
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Sandstone
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion Depot In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Florence Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Cobden
Endion School In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown