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
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 48 School Near Delano
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moderne New Ulm Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Le Sueur Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Franconia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Sandstone
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Meyer School In St Augusta
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Finding The Past In Swatara
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 6 School in New Sweden
Little Falls Depot
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Dotson
The Milford Monument
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Wasioja
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion School In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Red Wing Iron Works
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Daniel Piper House in Medford
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Old School In Wolverton
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Green Lake Mounds
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Florence Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Little Marais Inn
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hanover Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
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...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

