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
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
District 48 School Near Delano
It really hurts to see this old schoolhouse so neglected 😟 The Franklin Township (Minnesota)...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jordan Brewery Complex
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Franconia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Dotson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome to Hanska
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Endion Depot In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Milford Monument
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The End of the Line in Currie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Visiting Golden Gate
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion School In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Green Lake Mounds
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moving Old Hibbing
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hanover Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Almelund Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Sandstone
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Cobden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Red Wing Iron Works
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Ottawa
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Florence Town Hall
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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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