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
Landmark Center In St Paul
Landmark Center in St Paul, Minnesota, was dedicated in 1902 and originally served as the Federal...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The George and Charlotte Crosby house is located just a few blocks east of downtown Duluth...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Franconia
Visiting Golden Gate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Little Marais Inn
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Finding The Past In Swatara
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Red Wing Iron Works
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Green Lake Mounds
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Enter Marlon Brando
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Meyer School In St Augusta
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome to Hanska
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Endion Depot In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Old School In Wolverton
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Little Falls Depot
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Cobden
Lost Highway 61
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moderne New Ulm Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Florence Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 48 School Near Delano
Hanover Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jordan Brewery Complex
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Ottawa
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
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