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 Eight Days in May Protests
For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Geldner Sawmill stands on a narrow strip of land that separates Lake Jefferson and German Lake...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
District 48 School Near Delano
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Old School In Wolverton
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Little Falls Depot
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The End of the Line in Currie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
Visiting Golden Gate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome to Hanska
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Ottawa
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Little Marais Inn
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Duluth Homestead Project
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Almelund Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Le Sueur Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
The Milford Monument
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion School In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Jordan Brewery Complex
Dead Good Walks
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
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
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