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
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District Number 11 in McLeod County was first organized in 1865 to serve the predominantly Czech...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Le Sueur Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Duluth Homestead Project
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion School In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Almelund Creamery
Little Falls Depot
The Milford Monument
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Dotson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion Depot In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Cobden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hanover Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Moderne New Ulm Library
Green Lake Mounds
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Church of the Holy Cross
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Franconia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Little Marais Inn
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lost Highway 61
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 48 School Near Delano
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Ottawa
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Florence Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moving Old Hibbing
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

