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
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
In 1936, a sleek, Moderne-style public library was built in New Ulm, Minnesota. The land for the...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Wasioja
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Old Brewery In Preston
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion Depot In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Milford Monument
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Green Lake Mounds
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome to Hanska
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Florence Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
Little Falls Depot
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lost Highway 61
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bend in the River Regional Park
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Red Wing Iron Works
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Old Wadena
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Endion School In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Ottawa
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Ruins of Sawyer School
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Cobden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lundring Service Station in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Le Sueur Theater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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