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
The Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion School In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Visiting Golden Gate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering Quadna Resort
Green Lake Mounds
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moving Old Hibbing
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Dotson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 48 School Near Delano
Florence Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Brewery In Preston
The Duluth Homestead Project
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Oxford Mill Ruin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Milford Monument
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Wasioja
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Little Falls Depot
The Church of the Holy Cross
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome to Hanska
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Le Sueur Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Ottawa
Bend in the River Regional Park
The End of the Line in Currie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Franconia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
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...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown