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
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Little Marais Inn
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hanover Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Dotson
Old Brewery In Preston
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion School In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Little Falls Depot
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Visiting Golden Gate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering Quadna Resort
State Theater In Hutchinson
Green Lake Mounds
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Sandstone
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Milford Monument
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Franconia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Red Wing Iron Works
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Cobden
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Moving Old Hibbing
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

