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
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
State Theater In Hutchinson
The State Theater in Hutchinson, Minnesota, opened its doors on December 28, 1937. Customers paid...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 48 School Near Delano
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Old School In Wolverton
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moving Old Hibbing
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Brewery In Preston
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Wasioja
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome to Hanska
Lost Highway 61
Florence Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Little Falls Depot
Enter Marlon Brando
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Sandstone
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Dotson
Endion School In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Little Marais Inn
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 6 School in New Sweden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Old Wadena
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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