The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
Twin Cities Area
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wilder Public Baths
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Franconia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Almelund Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Little Falls Depot
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Red Wing Iron Works
District 48 School Near Delano
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Church of the Holy Cross
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Exploring Sandstone
The Milford Monument
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Dotson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moving Old Hibbing
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hanover Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Green Lake Mounds
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Ottawa
The Duluth Homestead Project
Enter Marlon Brando
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Wasioja
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Cobden
The End of the Line in Currie
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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