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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
Cobden, Minnesota, was incorporated in 1905. The little railroad town included a bank, creamery...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Beaver Bay is the oldest white settlement along the North Shore of Lake Superior. It was...
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering Quadna Resort
Green Lake Mounds
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Dotson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Florence Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
The Le Sueur Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Duluth Homestead Project
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moving Old Hibbing
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lost Highway 61
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Wasioja
Oxford Mill Ruin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Old School In Wolverton
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Little Falls Depot
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion School In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Sandstone
Old Brewery In Preston
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Milford Monument
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Ottawa
The Almelund Creamery
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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...
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...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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