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
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Churchill Methodist Church is located in present-day Brookfield Township, Minnesota. The...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Old Brewery In Preston
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Wasioja
Moderne New Ulm Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Cobden
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion School In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Little Marais Inn
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Ottawa
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Florence Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Sandstone
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Almelund Creamery
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moving Old Hibbing
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The End of the Line in Currie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lost Highway 61
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hanover Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In 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