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
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Constructed in 1869-70, the Metropolitan Hotel once stood at the corner of Washington and Third...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
By the end of the 19th century, dairy was quickly out-pacing wheat as the top agricultural...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Enter Marlon Brando
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion Depot In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
District 48 School Near Delano
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lost Highway 61
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
Ruins of Sawyer School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Cobden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Green Lake Mounds
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Red Wing Iron Works
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Old Wadena
Visiting Golden Gate
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Franconia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Little Marais Inn
Moderne New Ulm Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Duluth Homestead Project
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Le Sueur Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Milford Monument
Remembering Quadna Resort
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bend in the River Regional Park
The End of the Line in Currie
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 6 School in New Sweden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Almelund Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome to Hanska
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Little Falls Depot
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hanover Bridge
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
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...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial 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