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 Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Ottawa
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Old School In Wolverton
The Le Sueur Theater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
The Milford Monument
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Church of the Holy Cross
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lost Highway 61
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Enter Marlon Brando
Hanover Bridge
Little Falls Depot
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
District 48 School Near Delano
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Green Lake Mounds
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Wasioja
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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