In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Wasioja
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jordan Brewery Complex
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
District 48 School Near Delano
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Brewery In Preston
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Almelund Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Visiting Golden Gate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering Quadna Resort
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Little Falls Depot
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Franconia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hanover Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Florence Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lost Highway 61
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 6 School in New Sweden
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moving Old Hibbing
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Sandstone
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Milford Monument
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Old School In Wolverton
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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