In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Dotson
Old Brewery In Preston
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lost Highway 61
The Almelund Creamery
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome to Hanska
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Green Lake Mounds
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Visiting Golden Gate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion School In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Ottawa
The Old School In Wolverton
Ruins of Sawyer School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moderne New Ulm Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 6 School in New Sweden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Milford Monument
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Little Falls Depot
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Duluth Homestead Project
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 48 School Near Delano
Red Wing Iron Works
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Old Wadena
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Wasioja
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion Depot In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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 First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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