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
The Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
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...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Lincoln Branch of the Duluth Public Library opened in 1917 thanks to $30,000 from Andrew...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 48 School Near Delano
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hanover Bridge
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bend in the River Regional Park
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Wasioja
Lost Highway 61
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Meyer School In St Augusta
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Le Sueur Theater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Red Wing Iron Works
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Franconia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Ottawa
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The End of the Line in Currie
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Old Wadena
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
The Old School In Wolverton
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Cobden
The Milford Monument
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Enter Marlon Brando
Little Falls Depot
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 6 School in New Sweden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

