In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Twin Cities Area
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Greater Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Donald and Carrie Balfour house in Rochester, Minnesota, is a lovely example of how an Arts and...
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Old School In Wolverton
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Ottawa
Finding The Past In Swatara
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Enter Marlon Brando
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
State Theater In Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Duluth Homestead Project
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Old Wadena
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
The End of the Line in Currie
The Le Sueur Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Milford Monument
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lost Highway 61
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Cobden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Little Falls Depot
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Little Marais Inn
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome to Hanska
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hanover Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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 Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown