Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Le Sueur Theater
The Almelund Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hollywood Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Old School In Wolverton
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
Old Brewery In Preston
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 48 School Near Delano
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Sandstone
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Green Lake Mounds
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Franconia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Duluth Homestead Project
The End of the Line in Currie
Hanover Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Wasioja
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Milford Monument
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Little Marais Inn
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering Quadna Resort
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bend in the River Regional Park
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Old Wadena
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown