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
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
November 27, 1905, was a typical Monday morning for the crew of the flat-bottomed scow, George...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Travelers come upon the Stewart Creek stone-arch bridge in a bend of an unpaved section of Skyline...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Duluth Homestead Project
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Old Wadena
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Sandstone
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lost Highway 61
Florence Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion School In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
District 48 School Near Delano
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Franconia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Little Falls Depot
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Milford Monument
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Cobden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Le Sueur Theater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hanover Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The End of the Line in Currie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Dotson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Ruins of Sawyer School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Wasioja
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Red Wing Iron Works
The Old School In Wolverton
Visiting Golden Gate
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
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...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
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