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
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Greater Minnesota
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Washington County District No. 2 was formed in 1857 for the growing number of children moving into...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
The Old School In Wolverton
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Sandstone
District 48 School Near Delano
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Ottawa
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Le Sueur Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moving Old Hibbing
Florence Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lost Highway 61
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Little Marais Inn
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Brewery In Preston
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Wasioja
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome to Hanska
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Old Wadena
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Green Lake Mounds
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
State Theater In Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Little Falls Depot
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hanover Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Milford Monument
Historic Franconia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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