As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Twin Cities Area
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Travelers come upon the Stewart Creek stone-arch bridge in a bend of an unpaved section of Skyline...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bend in the River Regional Park
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Little Marais Inn
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moderne New Ulm Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Duluth Homestead Project
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Ottawa
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Wasioja
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion Depot In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Le Sueur Theater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Green Lake Mounds
Daniel Piper House in Medford
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hanover Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Sandstone
Meyer School In St Augusta
Almond White and the Motley Castle
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Almelund Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome to Hanska
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lost Highway 61
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Florence Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Dead Good Walks
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
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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