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
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hanover Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Milford Monument
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Almelund Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moderne New Ulm Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Le Sueur Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 48 School Near Delano
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Visiting Golden Gate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Wasioja
Historic Franconia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bend in the River Regional Park
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The End of the Line in Currie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Florence Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Dotson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Brewery In Preston
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Little Marais Inn
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lost Highway 61
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Little Falls Depot
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Cobden
Endion Depot In Duluth
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
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...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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