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
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School opened in Minneapolis in 1932. The school was named after Mary...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Taylor House In Le Sueur
There are quite a few examples of the gorgeous Eastlake-style architecture in Minnesota, but this...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Several buildings were constructed on 30 acres of lakefront property in Two Harbors in the 1920s to...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome to Hanska
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Visiting Golden Gate
The Duluth Homestead Project
Finding The Past In Swatara
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Red Wing Iron Works
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Sandstone
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
State Theater In Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jordan Brewery Complex
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Le Sueur Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Old Wadena
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Ruins of Sawyer School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hanover Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Milford Monument
Historic Wasioja
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moving Old Hibbing
The End of the Line in Currie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Ottawa
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Almelund Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Enter Marlon Brando
Little Falls Depot
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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