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
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Women’s City Club In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Milford Monument
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Little Marais Inn
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Cobden
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Ottawa
Red Wing Iron Works
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Old School In Wolverton
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Wasioja
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hanover Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome to Hanska
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moving Old Hibbing
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bend in the River Regional Park
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Brewery In Preston
The Church of the Holy Cross
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Le Sueur Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Finding The Past In Swatara
State Theater In Hutchinson
Enter Marlon Brando
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Dotson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Endion School In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lost Highway 61
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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 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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
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