Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
Twin Cities Area
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Ottawa
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Franconia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Meyer School In St Augusta
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Le Sueur Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Cobden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Old Wadena
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Finding The Past In Swatara
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Sandstone
District 48 School Near Delano
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hanover Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Florence Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
The Milford Monument
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Green Lake Mounds
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Almelund Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering Quadna Resort
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Old School In Wolverton
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moving Old Hibbing
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Enter Marlon Brando
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome to Hanska
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...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
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