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 Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
St Rose of Lima church was built in 1878. The church and its cemetery sit on over an acre of land...
Little Falls Depot
Construction started on the railroad depot in Little Falls in 1899. It was designed by Cass Gilbert...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion Depot In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The End of the Line in Currie
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Meyer School In St Augusta
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
State Theater In Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion School In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Le Sueur Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Visiting Golden Gate
Oxford Mill Ruin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Dotson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hanover Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
The Duluth Homestead Project
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Ottawa
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Franconia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Wasioja
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Cobden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Florence Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Enter Marlon Brando
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Brewery In Preston
The Milford Monument
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
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