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
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Apartments
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
William J Mayo was the older of the two Mayo brothers who, along with five partners, founded the...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Franconia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Florence Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion School In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Almelund Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Cobden
Hanover Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome to Hanska
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Sandstone
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Visiting Golden Gate
Green Lake Mounds
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Old Wadena
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Dotson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
State Theater In Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Finding The Past In Swatara
Enter Marlon Brando
The Old School In Wolverton
The Milford Monument
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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