Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Apartments
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Milford Monument
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Dotson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Endion School In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Little Marais Inn
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Franconia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Moving Old Hibbing
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Finding The Past In Swatara
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Le Sueur Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Ottawa
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Sandstone
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hanover Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Red Wing Iron Works
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Almelund Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
Green Lake Mounds
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Florence Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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