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 Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 6 School in New Sweden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Milford Monument
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 48 School Near Delano
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Ottawa
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Franconia
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The End of the Line in Currie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Wasioja
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Enter Marlon Brando
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Brewery In Preston
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Visiting Golden Gate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Sandstone
Endion Depot In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Dotson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Cobden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Le Sueur Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hanover Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moderne New Ulm Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Little Marais Inn
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Little Falls Depot
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Florence Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering Quadna Resort
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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