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
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Lustron homes along Nicollet Avenue near 50th Street S in Minneapolis are among nearly 2,500 of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
The townsite now known as Old Wadena was located on the Crow Wing River between the mouths of the...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
William Colvill — does that name ring a bell? Unless you're a Civil War history buff, this name...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Almelund Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Florence Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lost Highway 61
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Ottawa
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The End of the Line in Currie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Brewery In Preston
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Sandstone
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome to Hanska
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Green Lake Mounds
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Red Wing Iron Works
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Enter Marlon Brando
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Visiting Golden Gate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Little Falls Depot
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
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