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
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
St Rose of Lima church was built in 1878. The church and its cemetery sit on over an acre of land...
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hanover Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lost Highway 61
Randall Cooperative Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Le Sueur Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Ottawa
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Finding The Past In Swatara
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Franconia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion School In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Cobden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Old School In Wolverton
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome to Hanska
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Old Wadena
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Milford Monument
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Wasioja
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 48 School Near Delano
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jordan Brewery Complex
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Visiting Golden Gate
The Duluth Homestead Project
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering Quadna Resort
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Dotson
Green Lake Mounds
Little Falls Depot
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 6 School in New Sweden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
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
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses 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