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
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Cobden
Hanover Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Milford Monument
Florence Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lost Highway 61
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Meyer School In St Augusta
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Visiting Golden Gate
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Oxford Mill Ruin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion Depot In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Wasioja
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Little Falls Depot
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion School In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome to Hanska
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Ottawa
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The End of the Line in Currie
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Sandstone
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Green Lake Mounds
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Franconia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The New Ulm Company Service Station
State Theater In Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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