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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
Lost Highway 61
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Old Wadena
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Sandstone
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Brewery In Preston
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Franconia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Little Falls Depot
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Milford Monument
The Little Marais Inn
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Almelund Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Ottawa
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Enter Marlon Brando
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 48 School Near Delano
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Old School In Wolverton
Florence Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering Quadna Resort
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion Depot In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Wasioja
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The End of the Line in Currie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
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...
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown