Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Geldner Sawmill stands on a narrow strip of land that separates Lake Jefferson and German Lake...
The Milford Monument
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Finding The Past In Swatara
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Brewery In Preston
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Oxford Mill Ruin
Green Lake Mounds
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Franconia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Ottawa
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 48 School Near Delano
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lost Highway 61
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Park In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hanover Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome to Hanska
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hollywood Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Little Falls Depot
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Old Wadena
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Endion School In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Enter Marlon Brando
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Dotson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Old School In Wolverton
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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