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
The Eight Days in May Protests
For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
This gorgeous Second Empire style home in Hastings was built for William Thompson in 1880. Thompson...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion School In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Park In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Florence Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Almelund Creamery
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Milford Monument
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Wasioja
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Old School In Wolverton
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Brewery In Preston
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lost Highway 61
Green Lake Mounds
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Church of the Holy Cross
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Enter Marlon Brando
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Cobden
Hanover Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome to Hanska
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bend in the River Regional Park
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Franconia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Old Wadena
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Sandstone
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Article Archive
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
Old Brewery In Preston