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
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Churchill Methodist Church is located in present-day Brookfield Township, Minnesota. The...
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Green Lake Mounds
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Enter Marlon Brando
Lost Highway 61
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering Quadna Resort
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Visiting Golden Gate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Sandstone
Meyer School In St Augusta
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Franconia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Brewery In Preston
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 48 School Near Delano
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Florence Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moderne New Ulm Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Milford Monument
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Little Falls Depot
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bend in the River Regional Park
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The New Ulm Company Service Station
State Theater In Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Ottawa
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Red Wing Iron Works
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Cobden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s 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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
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