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
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Located in Robbinsdale, the international-style Terrace Theatre opened on May 23, 1951. At the...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Townhomes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Enter Marlon Brando
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome to Hanska
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lost Highway 61
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Green Lake Mounds
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Ruins of Sawyer School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Finding The Past In Swatara
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Little Marais Inn
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering Quadna Resort
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Dotson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Church of the Holy Cross
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Cobden
Visiting Golden Gate
Bend in the River Regional Park
Florence Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Ottawa
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Oxford Mill Ruin
The End of the Line in Currie
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Le Sueur Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
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...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital 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