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
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
The Duluth Homestead Project
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lost Highway 61
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Finding The Past In Swatara
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome to Hanska
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Wasioja
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moving Old Hibbing
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
Florence Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Little Falls Depot
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
District 48 School Near Delano
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Franconia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Red Wing Iron Works
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Le Sueur Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Milford Monument
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back 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...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

