As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Twin Cities Area
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Brewery In Preston
Red Wing Iron Works
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Ottawa
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Endion Depot In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Oxford Mill Ruin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Dotson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Green Lake Mounds
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lost Highway 61
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Cobden
Moderne New Ulm Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hanover Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
The Church of the Holy Cross
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion School In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Ruins of Sawyer School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Sandstone
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Milford Monument
The Little Marais Inn
Bend in the River Regional Park
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Florence Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Enter Marlon Brando
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Le Sueur Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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