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
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
The State Theater in Hutchinson, Minnesota, opened its doors on December 28, 1937. Customers paid...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
One of the earliest victims of the big blow on Lake Superior in November of 1905 was the steamer...
Florence Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion Depot In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Dotson
Visiting Golden Gate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taylor House In Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 48 School Near Delano
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Bend in the River Regional Park
Little Falls Depot
Endion School In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lost Highway 61
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Franconia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moving Old Hibbing
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Hanover Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Park In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Brewery In Preston
The Almelund Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The End of the Line in Currie
The Little Marais Inn
Oxford Mill Ruin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Cobden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

