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
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
The Le Sueur Theater on Main Street in Le Sueur, Minnesota, opened in 1884. The building was...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion Depot In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 48 School Near Delano
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Brewery In Preston
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Visiting Golden Gate
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering Quadna Resort
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome to Hanska
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Wasioja
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bend in the River Regional Park
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Enter Marlon Brando
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Little Marais Inn
Finding The Past In Swatara
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moving Old Hibbing
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Hanover Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Old School In Wolverton
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Dotson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Incline Railway
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The End of the Line in Currie
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Sandstone
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Milford Monument
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion School In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Florence Town Hall
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Cobden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
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
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
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