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
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis was constructed between 1891 and 1893. It was...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Red Wing Iron Works
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome to Hanska
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Old Wadena
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion Depot In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moderne New Ulm Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Sandstone
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Enter Marlon Brando
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Milford Monument
The Little Marais Inn
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Finding The Past In Swatara
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Ottawa
Bend in the River Regional Park
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Florence Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Wasioja
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 48 School Near Delano
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
District 6 School in New Sweden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Brewery In Preston
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Oxford Mill Ruin
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Le Sueur Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The End of the Line in Currie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Franconia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
Hanover Bridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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