Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
Twin Cities Area
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Greater Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
District 48 School Near Delano
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Brewery In Preston
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lost Highway 61
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Green Lake Mounds
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Sandstone
The Almelund Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion School In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hanover Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
District 6 School in New Sweden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Milford Monument
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Dotson
Little Falls Depot
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome to Hanska
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Le Sueur Theater
Dead Good Walks
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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...
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...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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