The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
Twin Cities Area
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
Hanover Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Almelund Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Florence Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Little Marais Inn
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Randall Cooperative Creamery
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Green Lake Mounds
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Ruins of Sawyer School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood Town Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Le Sueur Theater
District 6 School in New Sweden
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion School In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Cobden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Dotson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Brewery In Preston
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Milford Monument
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lost Highway 61
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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