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 Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 48 School Near Delano
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Franconia
Endion School In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Florence Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Old Brewery In Preston
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion Depot In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
State Theater In Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Wasioja
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Green Lake Mounds
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lost Highway 61
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Church of the Holy Cross
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Le Sueur Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Old Wadena
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Milford Monument
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hanover Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Dotson
Enter Marlon Brando
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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 Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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