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
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Greater Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Old Brewery In Preston
The Preston Brewery is located at the foot of a bluff on the banks of the Root River. Brewing...
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Florence Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Sandstone
Oxford Mill Ruin
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Le Sueur Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Little Marais Inn
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Milford Monument
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hanover Bridge
Lost Highway 61
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Visiting Golden Gate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Dotson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Wasioja
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion School In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Old Wadena
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The End of the Line in Currie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Meyer School In St Augusta
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Cobden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Green Lake Mounds
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland 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 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?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
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...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
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
