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
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Greater Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Beaver Bay is the oldest white settlement along the North Shore of Lake Superior. It was...
Red Wing Iron Works
The Duluth Homestead Project
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Cobden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Green Lake Mounds
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Florence Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Finding The Past In Swatara
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Brewery In Preston
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Ottawa
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion Depot In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Le Sueur Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Little Falls Depot
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lost Highway 61
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Sandstone
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
State Theater In Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Dotson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
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