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
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Apartments
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Have you ever wondered how Minnesota became known as the land of 10,000 lakes? Every Minnesotan...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Little Falls Depot
The Almelund Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Incline Railway
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Franconia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Enter Marlon Brando
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Green Lake Mounds
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Dotson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Wasioja
The Old School In Wolverton
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 48 School Near Delano
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering Quadna Resort
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Florence Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Brewery In Preston
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lundring Service Station in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Ottawa
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Cobden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hanover Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
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...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
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