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
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to one of the most awe-inspiring buildings in Minnesota. It’s big. It’s...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bend in the River Regional Park is located on the former property of the Graves family. The...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Le Sueur Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Florence Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The New Ulm Company Service Station
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Wasioja
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moderne New Ulm Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Sandstone
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Old School In Wolverton
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Duluth Homestead Project
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Ottawa
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Visiting Golden Gate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Dotson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 48 School Near Delano
The Milford Monument
Hollywood Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Cobden
Enter Marlon Brando
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Church of the Holy Cross
Little Falls Depot
Endion School In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Green Lake Mounds
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
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...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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