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
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Scottish immigrant James G Craigie settled in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, along with his wife...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Brewery In Preston
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Ottawa
The Le Sueur Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 48 School Near Delano
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Almelund Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Little Marais Inn
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Meyer School In St Augusta
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Sandstone
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Church of the Holy Cross
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Old School In Wolverton
Bend in the River Regional Park
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lost Highway 61
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Franconia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moving Old Hibbing
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Wasioja
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hanover Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
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
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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