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