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
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lost Highway 61
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Florence Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hanover Bridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moderne New Ulm Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Old Wadena
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Little Falls Depot
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Wasioja
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moving Old Hibbing
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Green Lake Mounds
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Brewery In Preston
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Enter Marlon Brando
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The End of the Line in Currie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Ottawa
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 48 School Near Delano
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Almond White and the Motley Castle
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
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