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 Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Wilder Public Baths
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Greater Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
In 1936, a sleek, Moderne-style public library was built in New Ulm, Minnesota. The land for the...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Florence Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Church of the Holy Cross
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Dotson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
State Theater In Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Wasioja
Ruins of Sawyer School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 48 School Near Delano
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lost Highway 61
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Green Lake Mounds
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Little Marais Inn
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Enter Marlon Brando
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Brewery In Preston
Red Wing Iron Works
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Meyer School In St Augusta
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Little Falls Depot
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Cobden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Franconia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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