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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Old School In Wolverton
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Wasioja
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Oxford Mill Ruin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Milford Monument
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Red Wing Iron Works
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Visiting Golden Gate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Brewery In Preston
The End of the Line in Currie
Enter Marlon Brando
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
Hanover Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Church of the Holy Cross
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion School In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 48 School Near Delano
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Dotson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Franconia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Ruins of Sawyer School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome to Hanska
Little Falls Depot
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion Depot In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown