Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wilder Public Baths
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
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...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Incline Railway
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Red Wing Iron Works
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Old School In Wolverton
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lost Highway 61
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion School In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The End of the Line in Currie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 6 School in New Sweden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Wasioja
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Franconia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Little Falls Depot
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome to Hanska
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Le Sueur Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Green Lake Mounds
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Milford Monument
The Little Marais Inn
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 48 School Near Delano
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Brewery In Preston
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Ottawa
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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