Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
Twin Cities Area
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Apartments
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wilder Public Baths
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Scottish immigrant James G Craigie settled in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, along with his wife...
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Duluth Homestead Project, also known as the Jackson Project, began under the United States...
Enter Marlon Brando
Ruins of Sawyer School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Dotson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Finding The Past In Swatara
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Cobden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The End of the Line in Currie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hanover Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Franconia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome to Hanska
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Little Marais Inn
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bend in the River Regional Park
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
The Milford Monument
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Florence Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Little Falls Depot
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lost Highway 61
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Green Lake Mounds
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Almelund Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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 Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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