In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
Twin Cities Area
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
Florence Town Hall is located along Highway 61 in Frontenac Station. The land to build the town...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Almelund Creamery
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Cobden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Red Wing Iron Works
The End of the Line in Currie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Randall Cooperative Creamery
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moderne New Ulm Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Brewery In Preston
Visiting Golden Gate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Little Marais Inn
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Green Lake Mounds
Meyer School In St Augusta
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lundring Service Station in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Wasioja
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Old School In Wolverton
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Endion School In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome to Hanska
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moving Old Hibbing
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Dotson
Little Falls Depot
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
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
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
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