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...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
Red Wing Iron Works was founded in 1866 by brothers Benjamin and Daniel Densmore. They found a...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Memories are made at the lake. Whether you’re lucky enough to go every weekend in the summer...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Dotson
Enter Marlon Brando
The Little Marais Inn
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Cobden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Old School In Wolverton
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Brewery In Preston
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome to Hanska
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Wasioja
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Le Sueur Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Incline Railway
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Sandstone
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hanover Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
District 6 School in New Sweden
Florence Town Hall
The Milford Monument
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Almelund Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion School In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Dead Good Walks
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
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...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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