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
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Visiting Golden Gate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Ottawa
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hanover Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Finding The Past In Swatara
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Enter Marlon Brando
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Franconia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Le Sueur Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Brewery In Preston
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Cobden
The Old School In Wolverton
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hollywood Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Dotson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome to Hanska
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion Depot In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Little Falls Depot
The Milford Monument
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Oxford Mill Ruin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion School In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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