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 Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two weeks after the James–Younger Gang raided Northfield the gang appeared at the farm of Ole...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Old Wadena
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Franconia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Enter Marlon Brando
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome to Hanska
Green Lake Mounds
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Wasioja
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Florence Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering Quadna Resort
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Milford Monument
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Brewery In Preston
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hanover Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Meyer School In St Augusta
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Sandstone
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Ottawa
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Dotson
The End of the Line in Currie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Old School In Wolverton
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
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
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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