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
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Enter Marlon Brando
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Church of the Holy Cross
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Dotson
Endion School In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Le Sueur Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 48 School Near Delano
Hanover Bridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Meyer School In St Augusta
Moving Old Hibbing
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Cobden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Oxford Mill Ruin
Florence Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The End of the Line in Currie
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lost Highway 61
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Ruins of Sawyer School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Wasioja
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Sandstone
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Green Lake Mounds
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Red Wing Iron Works
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jordan Brewery Complex
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Franconia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Little Falls Depot
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township 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 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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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