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
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
The Little Marais Inn
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Lost Highway 61
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Duluth Homestead Project
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion School In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Wasioja
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 48 School Near Delano
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Red Wing Iron Works
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Old Wadena
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Florence Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Enter Marlon Brando
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wandering Around The Toimi School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Little Falls Depot
Hanover Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jordan Brewery Complex
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Sandstone
The End of the Line in Currie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Franconia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bend in the River Regional Park
Meyer School In St Augusta
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Welcome to Hanska
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Brewery In Preston
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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