In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
Twin Cities Area
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lost Highway 61
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bend in the River Regional Park
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering Quadna Resort
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
Little Falls Depot
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Old School In Wolverton
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Wasioja
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Church of the Holy Cross
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Ottawa
Moving Old Hibbing
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Brewery In Preston
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hanover Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Little Marais Inn
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Red Wing Iron Works
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Florence Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Visiting Golden Gate
The End of the Line in Currie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Endion School In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Milford Monument
Historic Franconia
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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