Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Twin Cities Area
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wilder Public Baths
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The public library in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota was built in 1913 with a $10,000 grant from Andrew...
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Dotson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Wasioja
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Milford Monument
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
Florence Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Cobden
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Brewery In Preston
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wandering Around The Toimi School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Little Falls Depot
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Meyer School In St Augusta
Ruins of Sawyer School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Little Marais Inn
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion School In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Old School In Wolverton
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Ottawa
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The End of the Line in Currie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown