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...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Wasioja
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Milford Monument
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome to Hanska
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Church of the Holy Cross
Enter Marlon Brando
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Ruins of Sawyer School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Florence Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Cobden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion School In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 48 School Near Delano
Moving Old Hibbing
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Historic Franconia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The End of the Line in Currie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Little Marais Inn
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 6 School in New Sweden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lost Highway 61
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Dead Good Walks
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
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
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