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