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
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Moderne New Ulm Library
In 1936, a sleek, Moderne-style public library was built in New Ulm, Minnesota. The land for the...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Sandstone
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hanover Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Dotson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Red Wing Iron Works
The Old School In Wolverton
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 48 School Near Delano
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lost Highway 61
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Meyer School In St Augusta
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Finding The Past In Swatara
Green Lake Mounds
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The End of the Line in Currie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Brewery In Preston
The New Ulm Company Service Station
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Ruins of Sawyer School
Florence Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome to Hanska
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Ottawa
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Franconia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Le Sueur Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Milford Monument
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Cobden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill 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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
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