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
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Historic Wasioja
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Little Marais Inn
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lost Highway 61
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Le Sueur Theater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Little Falls Depot
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Old School In Wolverton
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Almelund Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion Depot In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hanover Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Dotson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Milford Monument
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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