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...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Townhomes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Built in 1926, the New Ulm Company Service Station is the best remaining example in a series of...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Memories are made at the lake. Whether you’re lucky enough to go every weekend in the summer...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The End of the Line in Currie
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
State Theater In Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Brewery In Preston
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Church of the Holy Cross
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Green Lake Mounds
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Wasioja
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bend in the River Regional Park
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Visiting Golden Gate
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Ottawa
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Almelund Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering Quadna Resort
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Milford Monument
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Cobden
The Little Marais Inn
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hanover Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lost Highway 61
Moderne New Ulm Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Franconia
Little Falls Depot
Welcome to Hanska
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Finding The Past In Swatara
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn 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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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 Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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