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
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Constructed in 1869-70, the Metropolitan Hotel once stood at the corner of Washington and Third...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering Quadna Resort
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Enter Marlon Brando
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lost Highway 61
The Le Sueur Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 48 School Near Delano
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Milford Monument
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion Depot In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Brewery In Preston
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Dotson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Wasioja
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Meyer School In St Augusta
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 6 School in New Sweden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Little Falls Depot
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Little Marais Inn
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Almelund Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
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...
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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