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 Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Robbinsdale Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Apartments
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Old School In Wolverton
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Le Sueur Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Almelund Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 48 School Near Delano
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Dotson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lost Highway 61
Little Falls Depot
Visiting Golden Gate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Ottawa
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hanover Bridge
Historic Wasioja
The Church of the Holy Cross
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering Quadna Resort
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Florence Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Little Marais Inn
Daniel Piper House in Medford
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Ruins of Sawyer School
The End of the Line in Currie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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