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
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The End of the Line in Currie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Red Wing Iron Works
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Little Marais Inn
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Franconia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hanover Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Ottawa
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Enter Marlon Brando
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
District 48 School Near Delano
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome to Hanska
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Meyer School In St Augusta
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Wasioja
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Sandstone
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Florence Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Old Brewery In Preston
Visiting Golden Gate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Little Falls Depot
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Cobden
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moving Old Hibbing
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
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
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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