When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Twin Cities Area
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bend in the River Regional Park is located on the former property of the Graves family. The...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
District 6 School in New Sweden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Sandstone
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Little Falls Depot
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lost Highway 61
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Old Wadena
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Almelund Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Oxford Mill Ruin
State Theater In Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Franconia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The End of the Line in Currie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Dotson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Little Marais Inn
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Wasioja
Moderne New Ulm Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Milford Monument
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hanover Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Cobden
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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 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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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