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
Robbinsdale Library
The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering Quadna Resort
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Ottawa
The Le Sueur Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Little Falls Depot
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
State Theater In Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Red Wing Iron Works
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Brewery In Preston
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Green Lake Mounds
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Ruins of Sawyer School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Franconia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Little Marais Inn
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Visiting Golden Gate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Moderne New Ulm Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome to Hanska
Florence Town Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Cobden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 48 School Near Delano
The End of the Line in Currie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Milford Monument
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
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
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
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