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
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The George and Charlotte Crosby house is located just a few blocks east of downtown Duluth...
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...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Enter Marlon Brando
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lost Highway 61
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Old School In Wolverton
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moving Old Hibbing
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Milford Monument
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome to Hanska
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 48 School Near Delano
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Sandstone
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The Almelund Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Wasioja
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Florence Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion School In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Little Falls Depot
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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