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