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 Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Greater Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wandering Around The Toimi School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lost Highway 61
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Finding The Past In Swatara
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Franconia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bend in the River Regional Park
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Milford Monument
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moving Old Hibbing
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
District 48 School Near Delano
District 6 School in New Sweden
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Almelund Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hanover Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Ottawa
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Brewery In Preston
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Le Sueur Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Visiting Golden Gate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome to Hanska
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Little Marais Inn
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Old School In Wolverton
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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