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
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Sandstone
Moderne New Ulm Library
Florence Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Le Sueur Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Dotson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lost Highway 61
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moving Old Hibbing
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Little Marais Inn
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Brewery In Preston
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Ottawa
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hanover Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion Depot In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion School In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Almelund Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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