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
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Construction on the Hamm Building in downtown St Paul began in 1915 and was completed in 1920. The...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
The Little Marais Inn
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering Quadna Resort
Florence Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Milford Monument
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Green Lake Mounds
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moving Old Hibbing
Lost Highway 61
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood Town Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Little Falls Depot
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Wasioja
The End of the Line in Currie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 48 School Near Delano
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome to Hanska
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hanover Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Ottawa
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Jordan Brewery Complex
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
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...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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