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...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Cobden
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Wasioja
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Dotson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Endion Depot In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
The Milford Monument
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Le Sueur Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Visiting Golden Gate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome to Hanska
Meyer School In St Augusta
The End of the Line in Currie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Little Marais Inn
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Brewery In Preston
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Ottawa
Bend in the River Regional Park
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Franconia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lost Highway 61
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
District 6 School in New Sweden
Red Wing Iron Works
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland 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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

