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...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The West Bridge in Madelia, Minnesota, was built in 1908. It is the earliest remaining example of a...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Wasioja
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Florence Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Dotson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome to Hanska
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Cobden
The Old School In Wolverton
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Little Falls Depot
Hanover Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Milford Monument
Hollywood Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lost Highway 61
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Sandstone
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bend in the River Regional Park
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Green Lake Mounds
Endion School In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Little Marais Inn
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
The Duluth Homestead Project
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Le Sueur Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Red Wing Iron Works
The End of the Line in Currie
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
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
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
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...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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