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
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Welcome to Hanska
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hanover Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Cobden
Oxford Mill Ruin
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moving Old Hibbing
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Ottawa
The Old School In Wolverton
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Little Marais Inn
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Almelund Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Florence Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Wasioja
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The End of the Line in Currie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Franconia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Little Falls Depot
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Enter Marlon Brando
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Randall Cooperative Creamery
District 48 School Near Delano
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Moderne New Ulm Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
The Le Sueur Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
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
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia 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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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