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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Enter Marlon Brando
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moving Old Hibbing
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Ottawa
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Wasioja
District 48 School Near Delano
Little Falls Depot
State Theater In Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Dotson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Sandstone
Old Brewery In Preston
Green Lake Mounds
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Red Wing Iron Works
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Duluth Homestead Project
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Le Sueur Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lost Highway 61
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Franconia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Oxford Mill Ruin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion School In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Milford Monument
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Cobden
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hanover Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
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...
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

