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
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
St Rose of Lima church was built in 1878. The church and its cemetery sit on over an acre of land...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Florence Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Little Marais Inn
Bend in the River Regional Park
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
District 6 School in New Sweden
Enter Marlon Brando
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Church of the Holy Cross
Red Wing Iron Works
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lost Highway 61
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Cobden
Endion School In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Sandstone
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The End of the Line in Currie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Le Sueur Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Dotson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion Depot In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Almelund Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moderne New Ulm Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Old School In Wolverton
Green Lake Mounds
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome to Hanska
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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