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
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Apartments
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Washington County District No. 2 was formed in 1857 for the growing number of children moving into...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Old Wadena
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Franconia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Milford Monument
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Almelund Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lost Highway 61
Green Lake Mounds
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Ottawa
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moving Old Hibbing
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Cobden
The Old School In Wolverton
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Little Falls Depot
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Dotson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Ruins of Sawyer School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion School In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Sandstone
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
The Little Marais Inn
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bend in the River Regional Park
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The End of the Line in Currie
Moderne New Ulm Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Old Brewery In Preston
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
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Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
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Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
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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