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