As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Twin Cities Area
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Little Falls Depot
Enter Marlon Brando
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lost Highway 61
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 48 School Near Delano
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
State Theater In Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Old Wadena
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Oxford Mill Ruin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Brewery In Preston
District 6 School in New Sweden
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Wasioja
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome to Hanska
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hanover Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Milford Monument
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moving Old Hibbing
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Ottawa
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion Depot In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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