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 E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little was a partner in a Minneapolis-based real estate firm. He didn’t leave behind much...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Townhomes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion Depot In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Florence Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Ottawa
The Le Sueur Theater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Franconia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion School In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome to Hanska
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Dotson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lost Highway 61
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Little Marais Inn
District 6 School in New Sweden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moving Old Hibbing
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The End of the Line in Currie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Almelund Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Oxford Mill Ruin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 48 School Near Delano
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
State Theater In Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
The Old School In Wolverton
The Milford Monument
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Cobden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Wasioja
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Visiting Golden Gate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Ruins of Sawyer School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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