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
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Sandstone
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Almelund Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion School In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Oxford Mill Ruin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Cobden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lost Highway 61
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 48 School Near Delano
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Wasioja
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hanover Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Moving Old Hibbing
Little Falls Depot
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taylor House In Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Dotson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Old School In Wolverton
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

