As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Twin Cities Area
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Munger Terrace has been a landmark in Duluth’s Central Hillside neighborhood since the building was...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
Little Falls Depot
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Old Wadena
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Park In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 48 School Near Delano
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Sandstone
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Wasioja
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moving Old Hibbing
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Milford Monument
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome to Hanska
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Franconia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion Depot In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Almelund Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion School In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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