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
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edwin H Hewitt was one of Minnesota’s most widely-known architects of the 20th century. Born in Red...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Memories are made at the lake. Whether you’re lucky enough to go every weekend in the summer...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The childhood home of children’s book author and illustrator Wanda Gag was built in New Ulm...
Visiting Golden Gate
Lost Highway 61
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Sandstone
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Ottawa
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Cobden
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion School In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome to Hanska
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Enter Marlon Brando
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Le Sueur Theater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hanover Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Old School In Wolverton
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Milford Monument
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Dotson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Franconia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Wasioja
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Little Falls Depot
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Red Wing Iron Works
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Duluth Homestead Project
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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