Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Twin Cities Area
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Lustron homes along Nicollet Avenue near 50th Street S in Minneapolis are among nearly 2,500 of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Scottish immigrant James G Craigie settled in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, along with his wife...
Old Brewery In Preston
The Preston Brewery sits at the base of a bluff along the Root River, a site known for its scenic...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Red Wing Iron Works
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome to Hanska
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Little Falls Depot
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Duluth Homestead Project
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Franconia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lost Highway 61
Endion School In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Sandstone
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Le Sueur Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Milford Monument
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Wasioja
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hanover Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Almelund Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lundring Service Station in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Cobden
Green Lake Mounds
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The End of the Line in Currie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital 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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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