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
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George H. Christian was a manager at the Washburn-Crosby Company in Minneapolis who worked out a...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome to Hanska
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Milford Monument
Lost Highway 61
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bend in the River Regional Park
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Franconia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moving Old Hibbing
Oxford Mill Ruin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hanover Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Le Sueur Theater
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 6 School in New Sweden
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Ottawa
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Dotson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jordan Brewery Complex
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Little Falls Depot
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Red Wing Iron Works
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Cobden
The Old School In Wolverton
Florence Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion School In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Brewery In Preston
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Sandstone
The Little Marais Inn
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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