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
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Located in Robbinsdale, the international-style Terrace Theatre opened on May 23, 1951. At the...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
Hollywood Town Hall
The Carver County District Number 76 School was built in 1906 and opened for classes in the fall of...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Ruins of Sawyer School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Franconia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Le Sueur Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hanover Bridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 48 School Near Delano
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Ottawa
The Almelund Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Cobden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Milford Monument
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion Depot In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 6 School in New Sweden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Florence Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Little Falls Depot
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
Green Lake Mounds
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

