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
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Robbinsdale Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Orpheum Theater in Duluth, Minnesota, was built on the old Temple Opera House site. The opera...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Brewery In Preston
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Incline Railway
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Ottawa
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Sandstone
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Little Falls Depot
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Le Sueur Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Little Marais Inn
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Dotson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moderne New Ulm Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Visiting Golden Gate
Lost Highway 61
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Meyer School In St Augusta
Red Wing Iron Works
Enter Marlon Brando
The End of the Line in Currie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Wasioja
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Florence Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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