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
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Frederick E. Murphy was known as the publisher and guiding spirit of the Minneapolis Tribune...
Florence Town Hall
Florence Town Hall is located along Highway 61 in Frontenac Station. The land to build the town...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Dotson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The End of the Line in Currie
District 6 School in New Sweden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Milford Monument
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Old Brewery In Preston
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Franconia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Cobden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering Quadna Resort
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lost Highway 61
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hanover Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Enter Marlon Brando
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
Red Wing Iron Works
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Green Lake Mounds
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Ottawa
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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...
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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