In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Twin Cities Area
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Saint Paul Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The West Bridge in Madelia, Minnesota, was built in 1908. It is the earliest remaining example of a...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome to Hanska
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion School In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moving Old Hibbing
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood Town Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Little Falls Depot
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Meyer School In St Augusta
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The End of the Line in Currie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hanover Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Franconia
Old Brewery In Preston
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Old School In Wolverton
Florence Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Lincoln Park In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Wasioja
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Le Sueur Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Green Lake Mounds
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Milford Monument
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
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...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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...
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...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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