Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
Twin Cities Area
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Brewery In Preston
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Franconia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Milford Monument
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Wasioja
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Finding The Past In Swatara
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moderne New Ulm Library
Visiting Golden Gate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome to Hanska
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Dotson
Red Wing Iron Works
The End of the Line in Currie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moving Old Hibbing
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Cobden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lost Highway 61
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion Depot In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Le Sueur Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Little Falls Depot
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hanover Bridge
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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