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 Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
In March 1963, the Twin Cities were rocked by a shocking and brutal crime – the murder of Carol...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The End of the Line in Currie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Florence Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 48 School Near Delano
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Milford Monument
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Franconia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Ottawa
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moving Old Hibbing
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Little Marais Inn
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Green Lake Mounds
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering Quadna Resort
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Cobden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Almelund Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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