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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Scottish immigrant James G Craigie settled in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, along with his wife...
Green Lake Mounds
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Church of the Holy Cross
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Le Sueur Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Ottawa
Bend in the River Regional Park
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
State Theater In Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Brewery In Preston
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Little Falls Depot
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Franconia
Lost Highway 61
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
District 48 School Near Delano
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome to Hanska
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Wasioja
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hanover Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Moving Old Hibbing
Enter Marlon Brando
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Oxford Mill Ruin
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...
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
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...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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