Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minneapolis has many beautiful homes, but the Gale mansion is easily one of my top three. I love...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pine Tree Lumber Company was established in Little Falls in 1890. Located on the banks of the...
Florence Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Dotson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome to Hanska
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jordan Brewery Complex
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Cobden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion Depot In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Old School In Wolverton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moderne New Ulm Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Sandstone
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Brewery In Preston
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
Endion School In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Visiting Golden Gate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering Quadna Resort
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood Town Hall
The Milford Monument
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 6 School in New Sweden
State Theater In Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hanover Bridge
Little Falls Depot
Moving Old Hibbing
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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