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...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Greater Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion School In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Old School In Wolverton
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Green Lake Mounds
Florence Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hanover Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Le Sueur Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Franconia
Little Falls Depot
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moderne New Ulm Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Old Wadena
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Milford Monument
Ruins of Sawyer School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Visiting Golden Gate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Dotson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Enter Marlon Brando
Lost Highway 61
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 48 School Near Delano
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
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...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
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