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
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Located in Robbinsdale, the international-style Terrace Theatre opened on May 23, 1951. At the...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
After 120 years, the mystery of what happened to Clara Ober between the evening of July 29th, 1895...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Endion School In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Almelund Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Brewery In Preston
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Little Marais Inn
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering Quadna Resort
Little Falls Depot
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Dotson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Visiting Golden Gate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Ottawa
Oxford Mill Ruin
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hanover Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome to Hanska
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 48 School Near Delano
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Enter Marlon Brando
Lost Highway 61
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Wasioja
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Milford Monument
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moving Old Hibbing
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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