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...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
Red Wing Iron Works was founded in 1866 by brothers Benjamin and Daniel Densmore. They found a...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Green Lake Mounds
The Le Sueur Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Old School In Wolverton
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Visiting Golden Gate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Milford Monument
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Dotson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Almelund Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Wasioja
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome to Hanska
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion School In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lost Highway 61
District 48 School Near Delano
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hollywood Town Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moderne New Ulm Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Old Brewery In Preston