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
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance Building In...
The Germania Life Insurance Building was built in 1889 at Fourth Street and Minnesota in downtown...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
District 48 School Near Delano
It really hurts to see this old schoolhouse so neglected 😟 The Franklin Township (Minnesota)...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Washington County District No. 2 was formed in 1857 for the growing number of children moving into...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hanover Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Cobden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion Depot In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Brewery In Preston
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Green Lake Mounds
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Sandstone
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Dotson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Franconia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Milford Monument
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Ottawa
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Little Marais Inn
Little Falls Depot
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Wasioja
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Almelund Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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