Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Visiting Golden Gate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Sandstone
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Old School In Wolverton
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Cobden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Florence Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hanover Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion Depot In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Church of the Holy Cross
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Ruins of Sawyer School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Ottawa
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Enter Marlon Brando
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lost Highway 61
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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