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
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Located in Robbinsdale, the international-style Terrace Theatre opened on May 23, 1951. At the...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Duluth Homestead Project
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome to Hanska
The Almelund Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Little Marais Inn
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Le Sueur Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Little Falls Depot
The Milford Monument
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion Depot In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Sandstone
Bend in the River Regional Park
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Brewery In Preston
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Enter Marlon Brando
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Franconia
Florence Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Church of the Holy Cross
Green Lake Mounds
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Old School In Wolverton
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hanover Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Cobden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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