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
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Old School In Wolverton
Florence Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Franconia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Little Falls Depot
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Enter Marlon Brando
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Almelund Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Old Wadena
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hanover Bridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Green Lake Mounds
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Red Wing Iron Works
District 6 School in New Sweden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
District 48 School Near Delano
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Milford Monument
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome to Hanska
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Sandstone
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bend in the River Regional Park
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lost Highway 61
State Theater In Hutchinson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

