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 Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was founded in January 1897. The church...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gates of Stonebridge
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Townhomes
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...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Milford Monument
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lost Highway 61
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion School In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Dotson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Wasioja
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Oxford Mill Ruin
Green Lake Mounds
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Little Falls Depot
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Sandstone
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The End of the Line in Currie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Cobden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hanover Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Ottawa
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 48 School Near Delano
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moderne New Ulm Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Enter Marlon Brando
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Brewery In Preston
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome to Hanska
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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