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
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Lustron homes along Nicollet Avenue near 50th Street S in Minneapolis are among nearly 2,500 of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Hollywood Town Hall
The Carver County District Number 76 School was built in 1906 and opened for classes in the fall of...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Little Falls Depot
Moving Old Hibbing
Lost Highway 61
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Sandstone
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Enter Marlon Brando
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Franconia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Finding The Past In Swatara
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome to Hanska
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Green Lake Mounds
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Wasioja
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hanover Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Milford Monument
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Red Wing Iron Works
The End of the Line in Currie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Old School In Wolverton
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Dotson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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
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
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Old Brewery In Preston