In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
Twin Cities Area
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Apartments
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The charming town of Winona, Minnesota, once played host to an extraordinary tale in the world of...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 48 School Near Delano
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Visiting Golden Gate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Enter Marlon Brando
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
State Theater In Hutchinson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lost Highway 61
District 6 School in New Sweden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Almelund Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hanover Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Dotson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moving Old Hibbing
Little Falls Depot
Florence Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Wasioja
Green Lake Mounds
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Milford Monument
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Red Wing Iron Works
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
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...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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