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
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wilder Public Baths
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
If you’ve been to the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota, there’s a good chance you’ve...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Ottawa
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Almelund Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
Visiting Golden Gate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Ruins of Sawyer School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Duluth Homestead Project
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hanover Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moving Old Hibbing
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Sandstone
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome to Hanska
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Green Lake Mounds
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Oxford Mill Ruin
Florence Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Red Wing Iron Works
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Little Falls Depot
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
State Theater In Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Franconia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Dotson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Milford Monument
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Randall Cooperative Creamery
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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