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
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium was the first medical hospital in Anoka, Minnesota. Dr. James F. Kline opened the...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Greater Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
St Rose of Lima church was built in 1878. The church and its cemetery sit on over an acre of land...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion School In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Ottawa
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Oxford Mill Ruin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moving Old Hibbing
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Enter Marlon Brando
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Dotson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome to Hanska
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 48 School Near Delano
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Cobden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Milford Monument
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jordan Brewery Complex
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Little Falls Depot
The Little Marais Inn
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
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...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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