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
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School opened in Minneapolis in 1932. The school was named after Mary...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Greater Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
Welcome to Hanska
State Theater In Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Cobden
The Little Marais Inn
Remembering Quadna Resort
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 48 School Near Delano
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion Depot In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Green Lake Mounds
Endion School In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Almelund Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Old School In Wolverton
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Ruins of Sawyer School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Wasioja
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Milford Monument
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Old Brewery In Preston
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Florence Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Visiting Golden Gate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
Red Wing Iron Works
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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