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

