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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Have you ever wondered how Minnesota became known as the land of 10,000 lakes? Every Minnesotan...
Welcome To Old Wadena
The townsite now known as Old Wadena was located on the Crow Wing River between the mouths of the...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Florence Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Cobden
Jordan Brewery Complex
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Ottawa
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Brewery In Preston
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Munger Terrace In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hanover Bridge
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Green Lake Mounds
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Franconia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Red Wing Iron Works
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Sandstone
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Milford Monument
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Almelund Creamery
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lost Highway 61
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Le Sueur Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moving Old Hibbing
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Enter Marlon Brando
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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