The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Twin Cities Area
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
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Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Little Marais Inn
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bend in the River Regional Park
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Moving Old Hibbing
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Little Falls Depot
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Dotson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hanover Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Cobden
Lost Highway 61
Florence Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Almelund Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Milford Monument
Exploring Ottawa
Finding The Past In Swatara
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
State Theater In Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Le Sueur Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Franconia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome to Hanska
Green Lake Mounds
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Enter Marlon Brando
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
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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