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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Scottish immigrant James G Craigie settled in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, along with his wife...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome to Hanska
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Almelund Creamery
Hanover Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Cobden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Ottawa
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Meyer School In St Augusta
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The End of the Line in Currie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moving Old Hibbing
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lost Highway 61
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Little Falls Depot
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Little Marais Inn
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Milford Monument
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Dotson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Florence Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moderne New Ulm Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Brewery In Preston
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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