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 Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Sandstone
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Dotson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Red Wing Iron Works
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Cobden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hanover Bridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion Depot In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moving Old Hibbing
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome to Hanska
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The End of the Line in Currie
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Finding The Past In Swatara
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Florence Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Little Marais Inn
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Little Falls Depot
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Ottawa
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Almelund Creamery
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion School In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jordan Brewery Complex
Green Lake Mounds
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Milford Monument
State Theater In Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 48 School Near Delano
Lost Highway 61
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Old School In Wolverton
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital 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 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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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
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