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...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Duluth Homestead Project
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Old School In Wolverton
District 48 School Near Delano
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Little Marais Inn
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Green Lake Mounds
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Franconia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Brewery In Preston
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Almelund Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Red Wing Iron Works
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion School In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Sandstone
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Florence Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome to Hanska
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

