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
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Construction on the Hamm Building in downtown St Paul began in 1915 and was completed in 1920. The...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Lincoln Branch of the Duluth Public Library opened in 1917 thanks to $30,000 from Andrew...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Hanover Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Red Wing Iron Works
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moderne New Ulm Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Little Marais Inn
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Franconia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Milford Monument
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Old Wadena
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Brewery In Preston
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Remembering Quadna Resort
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Wasioja
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Cobden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion School In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lost Highway 61
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome to Hanska
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Almelund Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Dotson
District 6 School in New Sweden
State Theater In Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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