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
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Milford Monument
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Visiting Golden Gate
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion School In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Red Wing Iron Works
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Le Sueur Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Oxford Mill Ruin
State Theater In Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Old School In Wolverton
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moving Old Hibbing
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Almelund Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Cobden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Enter Marlon Brando
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome to Hanska
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Old Wadena
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Franconia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses 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