Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Greater Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 48 School Near Delano
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Little Falls Depot
Bend in the River Regional Park
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Franconia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Ruins of Sawyer School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Red Wing Iron Works
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Le Sueur Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Old Brewery In Preston
The Almelund Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Dotson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Enter Marlon Brando
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion School In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Ottawa
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Endion Depot In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moving Old Hibbing
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Old Wadena
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome to Hanska
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Visiting Golden Gate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
State Theater In Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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