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
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Constructed in 1897 for $13,000, the First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was designed...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Beaver Bay is the oldest white settlement along the North Shore of Lake Superior. It was...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Oxford Mill Ruin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Old School In Wolverton
Green Lake Mounds
Meyer School In St Augusta
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Dotson
Finding The Past In Swatara
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Brewery In Preston
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Ottawa
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Almelund Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The End of the Line in Currie
The Le Sueur Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Milford Monument
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moving Old Hibbing
Enter Marlon Brando
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Florence Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Visiting Golden Gate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion School In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Randall Cooperative Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lost Highway 61
Welcome to Hanska
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Wasioja
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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