The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
Twin Cities Area
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Greater Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion School In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Cobden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Old Wadena
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Franconia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Wasioja
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Sandstone
Lost Highway 61
Welcome to Hanska
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Red Wing Iron Works
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Ottawa
Old Brewery In Preston
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Dotson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The End of the Line in Currie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Milford Monument
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Enter Marlon Brando
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Old School In Wolverton
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Little Falls Depot
Hanover Bridge
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Florence Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jordan Brewery Complex
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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