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