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 Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Scottish immigrant James G Craigie settled in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, along with his wife...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Franconia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Wasioja
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
The Old School In Wolverton
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Enter Marlon Brando
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Almelund Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Green Lake Mounds
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The End of the Line in Currie
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering Quadna Resort
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Dotson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Little Falls Depot
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Little Marais Inn
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lost Highway 61
The Le Sueur Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 6 School in New Sweden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Old Brewery In Preston
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Florence Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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