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
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
In March 1963, the Twin Cities were rocked by a shocking and brutal crime – the murder of Carol...
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Sandstone
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Milford Monument
The Almelund Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Enter Marlon Brando
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion School In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Red Wing Iron Works
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hanover Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Wasioja
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Meyer School In St Augusta
Florence Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
Little Falls Depot
Visiting Golden Gate
Jordan Brewery Complex
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Little Marais Inn
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Green Lake Mounds
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 48 School Near Delano
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Franconia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
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