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
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edwin H Hewitt was one of Minnesota’s most widely-known architects of the 20th century. Born in Red...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
One of the earliest victims of the big blow on Lake Superior in November of 1905 was the steamer...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Old Wadena
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
District 48 School Near Delano
Almond White and the Motley Castle
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hanover Bridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion School In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Enter Marlon Brando
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Brewery In Preston
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Little Marais Inn
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Sandstone
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Florence Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Milford Monument
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Red Wing Iron Works
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Old School In Wolverton
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Finding The Past In Swatara
Visiting Golden Gate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bend in the River Regional Park
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lost Highway 61
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
Historic Wasioja
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The End of the Line in Currie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Ottawa
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Almelund Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Cobden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
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...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

