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
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Greater Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Visiting Golden Gate
Little Falls Depot
Hanover Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Old School In Wolverton
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Cobden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Milford Monument
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Le Sueur Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 48 School Near Delano
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Old Wadena
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
Munger Terrace In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Sandstone
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lost Highway 61
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Dotson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moving Old Hibbing
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Little Marais Inn
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Florence Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Brewery In Preston
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Almelund Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
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
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

