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
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...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
Welcome to Hanska
Hanska was supposed to be a quick stop on my way from Mankato to Sleepy Eye. I planned to get a few...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 48 School Near Delano
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Cobden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Old Wadena
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Old Brewery In Preston
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Ottawa
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Sandstone
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Franconia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
The Milford Monument
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Church of the Holy Cross
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Dotson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Visiting Golden Gate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hanover Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Florence Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Little Falls Depot
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Duluth Homestead Project
Finding The Past In Swatara
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City 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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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