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
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Duluth Homestead Project
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Dotson
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Brewery In Preston
Green Lake Mounds
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Le Sueur Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Ottawa
Oxford Mill Ruin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome to Hanska
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood Town Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Red Wing Iron Works
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Wasioja
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lost Highway 61
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Cobden
Bend in the River Regional Park
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion School In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hanover Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moving Old Hibbing
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Little Marais Inn
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Franconia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The End of the Line in Currie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

