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 Saint Paul Hotel
The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Ottawa
Endion School In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Incline Railway
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Milford Monument
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 6 School in New Sweden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Franconia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering Quadna Resort
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
State Theater In Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The End of the Line in Currie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Old Wadena
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Sandstone
Moving Old Hibbing
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 48 School Near Delano
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jordan Brewery Complex
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Almelund Creamery
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Little Marais Inn
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Dotson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Brewery In Preston
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lost Highway 61
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bend in the River Regional Park
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Little Falls Depot
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hanover Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome to Hanska
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion Depot In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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