The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
Twin Cities Area
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
The State Theater in Hutchinson, Minnesota, opened its doors on December 28, 1937. Customers paid...
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Not much has changed at this house in Duluth. It looks pretty much the same as it did when it was...
Florence Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hanover Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 6 School in New Sweden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Franconia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Wasioja
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Red Wing Iron Works
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Little Falls Depot
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Brewery In Preston
Oxford Mill Ruin
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Milford Monument
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Le Sueur Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Little Marais Inn
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome to Hanska
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Old School In Wolverton
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
The Almelund Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Duluth Homestead Project
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
District 48 School Near Delano
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of 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