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
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wilder Public Baths
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
Exploring Sandstone
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The End of the Line in Currie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Ruins of Sawyer School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome to Hanska
Endion School In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Enter Marlon Brando
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Franconia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Milford Monument
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Cobden
Meyer School In St Augusta
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hanover Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Park In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Old School In Wolverton
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Dotson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Wasioja
Old Brewery In Preston
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Green Lake Mounds
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Florence Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
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