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
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ok, stick with me here. Can you remember how your elementary school smelled? I can. Vividly. A hint...
Historic Franconia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Wasioja
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Cobden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lost Highway 61
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Brewery In Preston
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering Quadna Resort
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Visiting Golden Gate
Moving Old Hibbing
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Little Marais Inn
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome to Hanska
Florence Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Old Wadena
Enter Marlon Brando
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Church of the Holy Cross
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Dotson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Ottawa
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Sandstone
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Milford Monument
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Almelund Creamery
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Green Lake Mounds
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor 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