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
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Apartments
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Little Falls Depot
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hollywood Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Milford Monument
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion Depot In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Almelund Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Florence Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moving Old Hibbing
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Ruins of Sawyer School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moderne New Ulm Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hanover Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Old School In Wolverton
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Franconia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Le Sueur Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lost Highway 61
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion School In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Sandstone
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Dotson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Wasioja
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
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