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
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George H. Christian was a manager at the Washburn-Crosby Company in Minneapolis who worked out a...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Little Falls Depot
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Dotson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Old Wadena
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Visiting Golden Gate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Brewery In Preston
Moderne New Ulm Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Little Marais Inn
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood Town Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Enter Marlon Brando
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The End of the Line in Currie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Franconia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion School In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Almelund Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Ruins of Sawyer School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lost Highway 61
District 48 School Near Delano
The Old School In Wolverton
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Milford Monument
Green Lake Mounds
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Ottawa
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome to Hanska
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion Depot In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Sandstone
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
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