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
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Florence Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
The Old School In Wolverton
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Le Sueur Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome to Hanska
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taylor House In Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Dotson
Lost Highway 61
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Franconia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Green Lake Mounds
The Almelund Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Cobden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
State Theater In Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moderne New Ulm Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Little Falls Depot
Hanover Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Wasioja
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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