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
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Greater Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District Number 11 in McLeod County was first organized in 1865 to serve the predominantly Czech...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moving Old Hibbing
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
State Theater In Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Duluth Homestead Project
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Wasioja
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Little Falls Depot
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Oxford Mill Ruin
Visiting Golden Gate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moderne New Ulm Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Franconia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bend in the River Regional Park
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Enter Marlon Brando
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Red Wing Iron Works
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Ottawa
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome to Hanska
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Old Wadena
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion School In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
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