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
The Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Travelers come upon the Stewart Creek stone-arch bridge in a bend of an unpaved section of Skyline...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to one of the most awe-inspiring buildings in Minnesota. It’s big. It’s...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Hanover Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moderne New Ulm Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lost Highway 61
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Franconia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Sandstone
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Cobden
Visiting Golden Gate
The Le Sueur Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Finding The Past In Swatara
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Little Marais Inn
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bend in the River Regional Park
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Florence Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Wasioja
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion School In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Milford Monument
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital 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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In 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