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
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Apartments
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 48 School Near Delano
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Brewery In Preston
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Florence Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion School In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Almelund Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Ottawa
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Cobden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
The Old School In Wolverton
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Enter Marlon Brando
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lost Highway 61
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Franconia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The End of the Line in Currie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Visiting Golden Gate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Red Wing Iron Works
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome to Hanska
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Le Sueur Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Wasioja
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hanover Bridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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