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
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
District #28 School in Ramsey
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Old Brewery In Preston
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Old School In Wolverton
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Wasioja
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Ottawa
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Franconia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Visiting Golden Gate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Milford Monument
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The End of the Line in Currie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hanover Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lost Highway 61
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Le Sueur Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Enter Marlon Brando
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Little Falls Depot
The Almelund Creamery
Florence Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 48 School Near Delano
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...

