The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
Twin Cities Area
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Hanska was supposed to be a quick stop on my way from Mankato to Sleepy Eye. I planned to get a few...
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion School In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Cobden
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Visiting Golden Gate
The Church of the Holy Cross
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Ottawa
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Ruins of Sawyer School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Franconia
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
State Theater In Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Little Falls Depot
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
The Little Marais Inn
District 48 School Near Delano
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
Lost Highway 61
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Enter Marlon Brando
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Almelund Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Florence Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
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...
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
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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