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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
State Theater In Hutchinson
The State Theater in Hutchinson, Minnesota, opened its doors on December 28, 1937. Customers paid...
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Cobden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Dotson
Old Brewery In Preston
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lost Highway 61
Hollywood Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Little Falls Depot
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome to Hanska
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Enter Marlon Brando
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hanover Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion School In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bend in the River Regional Park
Florence Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion Depot In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Milford Monument
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Little Marais Inn
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Franconia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Sandstone
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Meyer School In St Augusta
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Church of the Holy Cross
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Visiting Golden Gate
Green Lake Mounds
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
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...

