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
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lost Highway 61
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Dotson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The End of the Line in Currie
The Milford Monument
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
State Theater In Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Sandstone
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Green Lake Mounds
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome to Hanska
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion School In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Brewery In Preston
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Franconia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Wasioja
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Enter Marlon Brando
Jordan Brewery Complex
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 6 School in New Sweden
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hanover Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Cobden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Red Wing Iron Works
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

