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
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Lustron homes along Nicollet Avenue near 50th Street S in Minneapolis are among nearly 2,500 of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Ruins of Sawyer School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Little Falls Depot
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion School In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Almelund Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The End of the Line in Currie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Cobden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 6 School in New Sweden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hanover Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
State Theater In Hutchinson
Green Lake Mounds
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Enter Marlon Brando
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Church of the Holy Cross
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Wasioja
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Visiting Golden Gate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Dotson
Lost Highway 61
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bend in the River Regional Park
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Franconia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Old School In Wolverton
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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