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
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
For several years, Tenney held the distinction of being Minnesota’s smallest town. The 2010 census...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
The Little Marais Inn
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
District 48 School Near Delano
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Old Wadena
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Cobden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Milford Monument
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Wasioja
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering Quadna Resort
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Sandstone
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Ottawa
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Almelund Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Old School In Wolverton
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The End of the Line in Currie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Red Wing Iron Works
Lost Highway 61
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moving Old Hibbing
The Le Sueur Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moderne New Ulm Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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