Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Lincoln Branch of the Duluth Public Library opened in 1917 thanks to $30,000 from Andrew...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Wasioja
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Le Sueur Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Green Lake Mounds
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Dotson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 48 School Near Delano
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 6 School in New Sweden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Brewery In Preston
Enter Marlon Brando
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Franconia
Florence Town Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moving Old Hibbing
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lost Highway 61
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Milford Monument
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Ottawa
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
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Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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...
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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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