Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Finding The Past In Swatara
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Franconia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Cobden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Church of the Holy Cross
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Old School In Wolverton
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Wasioja
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moderne New Ulm Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bend in the River Regional Park
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Florence Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Little Falls Depot
Endion School In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Enter Marlon Brando
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Almelund Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Dotson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Le Sueur Theater
Hanover Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Little Marais Inn
District 6 School in New Sweden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lost Highway 61
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Green Lake Mounds
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Sandstone
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
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Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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