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