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
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 48 School Near Delano
Meyer School In St Augusta
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Dotson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Exploring Ottawa
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Jordan Brewery Complex
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Wasioja
Welcome to Hanska
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Almelund Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Little Marais Inn
Ruins of Sawyer School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Red Wing Iron Works
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Little Falls Depot
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hanover Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Cobden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Old School In Wolverton
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Enter Marlon Brando
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
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
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
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