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
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
Welcome to Hanska
Hanska was supposed to be a quick stop on my way from Mankato to Sleepy Eye. I planned to get a few...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Old Brewery In Preston
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Milford Monument
Historic Wasioja
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Old School In Wolverton
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Finding The Past In Swatara
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Sandstone
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Almelund Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Little Marais Inn
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Ottawa
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Green Lake Mounds
District 6 School in New Sweden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 48 School Near Delano
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Franconia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Florence Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lost Highway 61
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Cobden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Red Wing Iron Works
Little Falls Depot
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moving Old Hibbing
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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
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
Old Brewery In Preston