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