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