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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
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...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Visiting Golden Gate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Florence Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Old Wadena
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion Depot In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moderne New Ulm Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering Quadna Resort
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome to Hanska
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moving Old Hibbing
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Little Marais Inn
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Sandstone
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Wasioja
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Milford Monument
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Duluth Homestead Project
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Dotson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Little Falls Depot
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Ottawa
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Almelund Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion School In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
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...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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