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...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Historic Wasioja
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hanover Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The End of the Line in Currie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Le Sueur Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Little Falls Depot
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Little Marais Inn
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Florence Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Cobden
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 48 School Near Delano
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering Quadna Resort
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Milford Monument
Lost Highway 61
Historic Franconia
Exploring Sandstone
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Green Lake Mounds
The Church of the Holy Cross
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Dotson
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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