In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
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...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Have you ever wondered how Minnesota became known as the land of 10,000 lakes? Every Minnesotan...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moving Old Hibbing
The Old School In Wolverton
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Meyer School In St Augusta
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Red Wing Iron Works
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bend in the River Regional Park
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Little Marais Inn
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
The Church of the Holy Cross
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Dotson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Oxford Mill Ruin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hanover Bridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Brewery In Preston
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Florence Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Visiting Golden Gate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 48 School Near Delano
The Milford Monument
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Cobden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Ottawa
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome to Hanska
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Endion School In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s 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 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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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