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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Robbinsdale Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
Old Brewery In Preston
Green Lake Mounds
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Enter Marlon Brando
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Milford Monument
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion School In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Franconia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Little Falls Depot
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Almelund Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Sandstone
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Dotson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
State Theater In Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Red Wing Iron Works
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Duluth Homestead Project
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Little Marais Inn
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Le Sueur Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hanover Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The End of the Line in Currie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill 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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor 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