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
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
State Theater In Hutchinson
The State Theater in Hutchinson, Minnesota, opened its doors on December 28, 1937. Customers paid...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Milford Monument
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Almelund Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Exploring Ottawa
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion School In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Franconia
Exploring Sandstone
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Brewery In Preston
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Little Marais Inn
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Church of the Holy Cross
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lost Highway 61
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Dotson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 48 School Near Delano
Jordan Brewery Complex
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Duluth Homestead Project
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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