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...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Duluth Homestead Project, also known as the Jackson Project, began under the United States...
The End of the Line in Currie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Lost Highway 61
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Wasioja
The Milford Monument
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 6 School in New Sweden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Brewery In Preston
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome to Hanska
The Old School In Wolverton
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Dotson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Little Marais Inn
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Little Falls Depot
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Green Lake Mounds
The Church of the Holy Cross
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Moving Old Hibbing
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Franconia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

