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
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wilder Public Baths
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Robbinsdale Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Greater Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
The End of the Line in Currie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Red Wing Iron Works
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hanover Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bend in the River Regional Park
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 6 School in New Sweden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Almelund Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Milford Monument
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moving Old Hibbing
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 48 School Near Delano
Meyer School In St Augusta
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Franconia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Green Lake Mounds
Florence Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Little Falls Depot
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Ruins of Sawyer School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Old Wadena
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

