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
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Duluth Homestead Project, also known as the Jackson Project, began under the United States...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 48 School Near Delano
The Little Marais Inn
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Red Wing Iron Works
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Little Falls Depot
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Green Lake Mounds
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jordan Brewery Complex
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The End of the Line in Currie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moving Old Hibbing
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome to Hanska
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Enter Marlon Brando
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Oxford Mill Ruin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Florence Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Milford Monument
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Wasioja
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Sandstone
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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