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
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Adolph Biermann house in Rochester is the oldest documented structure in the Mayowood Historic...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Green Lake Mounds
The Milford Monument
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Wasioja
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Little Falls Depot
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Visiting Golden Gate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Le Sueur Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moving Old Hibbing
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 6 School in New Sweden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Munger Terrace In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Duluth Homestead Project
Enter Marlon Brando
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
District 48 School Near Delano
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Florence Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion School In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Sandstone
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome to Hanska
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lost Highway 61
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Meyer School In St Augusta
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Ottawa
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital 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