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
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Wasioja
Lost Highway 61
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Almelund Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion School In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Cobden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Enter Marlon Brando
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Ottawa
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Little Marais Inn
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Milford Monument
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Brewery In Preston
Ruins of Sawyer School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome to Hanska
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Sandstone
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Remembering Quadna Resort
Green Lake Mounds
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Le Sueur Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Franconia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
State Theater In Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Little Falls Depot
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Oxford Mill Ruin
Red Wing Iron Works
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate 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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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...
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
Old Brewery In Preston