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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lost Highway 61
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Little Falls Depot
The Old School In Wolverton
The Little Marais Inn
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hanover Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Wasioja
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Milford Monument
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Cobden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Ottawa
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bend in the River Regional Park
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 48 School Near Delano
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Visiting Golden Gate
The End of the Line in Currie
Red Wing Iron Works
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Green Lake Mounds
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 6 School in New Sweden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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