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
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Ottawa
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Little Falls Depot
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Visiting Golden Gate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moving Old Hibbing
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering Quadna Resort
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Wasioja
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The End of the Line in Currie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Red Wing Iron Works
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Sandstone
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Milford Monument
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Franconia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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