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
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
In 1929, the Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge was established in Lanesboro, Minnesota. Membership...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Wasioja
Hollywood Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Visiting Golden Gate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
State Theater In Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Sandstone
Endion Depot In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Ottawa
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Green Lake Mounds
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Duluth Homestead Project
The End of the Line in Currie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
Little Falls Depot
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Finding The Past In Swatara
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hanover Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Red Wing Iron Works
The Little Marais Inn
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Milford Monument
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lost Highway 61
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Almelund Creamery
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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