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
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
District #28 School in Ramsey
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Brewery In Preston
Lost Highway 61
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Cobden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Le Sueur Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Florence Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jordan Brewery Complex
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Wasioja
The Almelund Creamery
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Red Wing Iron Works
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome to Hanska
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Enter Marlon Brando
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moving Old Hibbing
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Ottawa
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Milford Monument
The End of the Line in Currie
Little Falls Depot
Green Lake Mounds
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
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