Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
The Swinford Townhomes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Little Marais Inn
The Le Sueur Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Meyer School In St Augusta
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Florence Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moving Old Hibbing
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion School In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion Depot In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Ruins of Sawyer School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hanover Bridge
The Milford Monument
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Visiting Golden Gate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Oxford Mill Ruin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Wasioja
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Ottawa
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
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
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
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
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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