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
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
World-renowned author F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in an apartment on the second floor of this...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Green Lake Mounds
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Meyer School In St Augusta
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Enter Marlon Brando
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jordan Brewery Complex
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Brewery In Preston
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion Depot In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Sandstone
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Dotson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moving Old Hibbing
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 48 School Near Delano
The Almelund Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Little Marais Inn
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Old School In Wolverton
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lost Highway 61
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Le Sueur Theater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Little Falls Depot
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Franconia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Endion School In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
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...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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