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
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Greater Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
The Little Marais Inn
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Little Falls Depot
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Franconia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Sandstone
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Milford Monument
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Bend in the River Regional Park
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome to Hanska
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hanover Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Green Lake Mounds
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Florence Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion Depot In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Le Sueur Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Finding The Past In Swatara
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 48 School Near Delano
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Almelund Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Dotson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lost Highway 61
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Visiting Golden Gate
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Ottawa
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital 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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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