As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Twin Cities Area
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Munger Terrace has been a landmark in Duluth’s Central Hillside neighborhood since the building was...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome to Hanska
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hanover Bridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Florence Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moving Old Hibbing
Oxford Mill Ruin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Milford Monument
Remembering Quadna Resort
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Little Marais Inn
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 48 School Near Delano
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 6 School in New Sweden
Meyer School In St Augusta
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Le Sueur Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion Depot In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Little Falls Depot
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Sandstone
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Dotson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Wasioja
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Cobden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital 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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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