As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Twin Cities Area
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Wasioja
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 48 School Near Delano
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Dotson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Little Falls Depot
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jordan Brewery Complex
Oxford Mill Ruin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lost Highway 61
Remembering Quadna Resort
Ruins of Sawyer School
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood Town Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Visiting Golden Gate
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moving Old Hibbing
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Florence Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hanover Bridge
The Milford Monument
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Ottawa
Finding The Past In Swatara
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
State Theater In Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moderne New Ulm Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
Enter Marlon Brando
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Sandstone
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Green Lake Mounds
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In 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