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...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hanover Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Florence Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Franconia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Exploring Ottawa
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Finding The Past In Swatara
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome to Hanska
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Wasioja
District 6 School in New Sweden
Green Lake Mounds
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
State Theater In Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Sandstone
Endion School In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Milford Monument
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Old School In Wolverton
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 48 School Near Delano
Little Falls Depot
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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