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
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Greater Minnesota
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Several buildings were constructed on 30 acres of lakefront property in Two Harbors in the 1920s to...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lost Highway 61
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Little Falls Depot
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Wasioja
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
The Le Sueur Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Old School In Wolverton
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Oxford Mill Ruin
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome to Hanska
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moving Old Hibbing
Visiting Golden Gate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hanover Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion School In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Florence Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Church of the Holy Cross
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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