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
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Located in Robbinsdale, the international-style Terrace Theatre opened on May 23, 1951. At the...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Greater Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
Hanover Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moderne New Ulm Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Franconia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Florence Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Enter Marlon Brando
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 48 School Near Delano
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The End of the Line in Currie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lost Highway 61
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Cobden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Red Wing Iron Works
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Milford Monument
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Almelund Creamery
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Wasioja
The Little Marais Inn
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Brewery In Preston
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Old Wadena
Oxford Mill Ruin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jordan Brewery Complex
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome to Hanska
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Dotson
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Finding The Past In Swatara
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion Depot In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
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...
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown