The Germania Life Insurance Building was built in 1889 at Fourth Street and Minnesota in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance Building In...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Constructed in 1897 for $13,000, the First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was designed...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Women’s City Club In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
November 27, 1905, was a typical Monday morning for the crew of the flat-bottomed scow, George...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Cobden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Enter Marlon Brando
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Wasioja
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Sandstone
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Le Sueur Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jordan Brewery Complex
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Brewery In Preston
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hanover Bridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Old School In Wolverton
The Little Marais Inn
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Green Lake Mounds
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Red Wing Iron Works
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Duluth Homestead Project
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Milford Monument
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Little Falls Depot
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome to Hanska
State Theater In Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion School In Duluth
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...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
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
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In 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