In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Moving Old Hibbing
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Little Falls Depot
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion School In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Almelund Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Park In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jordan Brewery Complex
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
State Theater In Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Finding The Past In Swatara
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Franconia
Lost Highway 61
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Old School In Wolverton
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Sandstone
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Red Wing Iron Works
The Milford Monument
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Ruins of Sawyer School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Little Marais Inn
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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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