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