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
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Lustron homes along Nicollet Avenue near 50th Street S in Minneapolis are among nearly 2,500 of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
Robbinsdale Library
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Greater Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Cobden
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Brewery In Preston
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Sandstone
Enter Marlon Brando
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Wasioja
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Jordan Brewery Complex
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Red Wing Iron Works
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Milford Monument
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering Quadna Resort
Visiting Golden Gate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The End of the Line in Currie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hanover Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Oxford Mill Ruin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Franconia
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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