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 Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Dotson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 48 School Near Delano
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Florence Town Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Enter Marlon Brando
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lost Highway 61
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Le Sueur Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Red Wing Iron Works
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The End of the Line in Currie
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Green Lake Mounds
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion School In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moving Old Hibbing
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Cobden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Visiting Golden Gate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome to Hanska
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Little Falls Depot
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Little Marais Inn
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Milford Monument
Ruins of Sawyer School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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