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 Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
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...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion School In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hanover Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moving Old Hibbing
Little Falls Depot
District 48 School Near Delano
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Old School In Wolverton
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Cobden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Ruins of Sawyer School
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Church of the Holy Cross
State Theater In Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Almelund Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moderne New Ulm Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Little Marais Inn
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Green Lake Mounds
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Dotson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Franconia
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Wasioja
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Red Wing Iron Works
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...

