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
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
The Carver County District Number 76 School was built in 1906 and opened for classes in the fall of...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Duluth Homestead Project
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Green Lake Mounds
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Dotson
Moving Old Hibbing
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Franconia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Enter Marlon Brando
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Sandstone
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Oxford Mill Ruin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Cobden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bend in the River Regional Park
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lost Highway 61
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Milford Monument
Endion School In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jordan Brewery Complex
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering Quadna Resort
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
The Old School In Wolverton
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
State Theater In Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hanover Bridge
Historic Wasioja
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Meyer School In St Augusta
Little Falls Depot
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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