In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Twin Cities Area
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ok, stick with me here. Can you remember how your elementary school smelled? I can. Vividly. A hint...
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hanover Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Enter Marlon Brando
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion School In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Old School In Wolverton
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Franconia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Ottawa
State Theater In Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome to Hanska
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Le Sueur Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Little Falls Depot
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Sandstone
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
District 6 School in New Sweden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moving Old Hibbing
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The End of the Line in Currie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Endion Depot In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Old Wadena
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Florence Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 48 School Near Delano
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Cobden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Park In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital 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 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?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
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 Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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