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
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Green Lake Mounds
Endion Depot In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jordan Brewery Complex
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Franconia
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Sandstone
District 48 School Near Delano
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Little Falls Depot
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Dotson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Cobden
Hanover Bridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Florence Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Finding The Past In Swatara
State Theater In Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Almelund Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Milford Monument
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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