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
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
This beauty was built in 1914 and is St Paul’s largest Prairie Style house at just under 3,000...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Old School In Wolverton
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moderne New Ulm Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Ottawa
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Cobden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Milford Monument
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Wasioja
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Le Sueur Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moving Old Hibbing
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Little Falls Depot
The End of the Line in Currie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Enter Marlon Brando
Jordan Brewery Complex
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Almelund Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital 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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital 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