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
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Martha G. Ripley Hospital for Women was a pioneering institution in the history of Minnesota...
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
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...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Munger Terrace has been a landmark in Duluth’s Central Hillside neighborhood since the building was...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bend in the River Regional Park
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Red Wing Iron Works
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Le Sueur Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Almelund Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Sandstone
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Brewery In Preston
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome to Hanska
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Milford Monument
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Finding The Past In Swatara
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Green Lake Mounds
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Ruins of Sawyer School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Dotson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lost Highway 61
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Little Falls Depot
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Visiting Golden Gate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hanover Bridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Cobden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial 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