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
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
The townsite now known as Old Wadena was located on the Crow Wing River between the mouths of the...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Harry A. Subilia was an Italian immigrant who opened the first distillery in New Ulm, Minnesota. He...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Little Falls Depot
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Visiting Golden Gate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Old School In Wolverton
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Ottawa
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Franconia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Oxford Mill Ruin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Enter Marlon Brando
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Duluth Homestead Project
State Theater In Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Dotson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 6 School in New Sweden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Milford Monument
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Wasioja
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hanover Bridge
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Sandstone
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome to Hanska
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jordan Brewery Complex
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Florence Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Finding The Past In Swatara
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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