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
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Lincoln Branch of the Duluth Public Library opened in 1917 thanks to $30,000 from Andrew...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Cobden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Moderne New Ulm Library
Endion School In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Old School In Wolverton
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The End of the Line in Currie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Sandstone
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hanover Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 48 School Near Delano
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Franconia
Lost Highway 61
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Milford Monument
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Little Falls Depot
Old Brewery In Preston
Green Lake Mounds
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Park In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Visiting Golden Gate
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Almelund Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Le Sueur Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
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