Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
St Rose of Lima church was built in 1878. The church and its cemetery sit on over an acre of land...
Green Lake Mounds
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Milford Monument
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Cobden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lost Highway 61
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hanover Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Old School In Wolverton
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
District 6 School in New Sweden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Le Sueur Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Sandstone
Meyer School In St Augusta
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Little Marais Inn
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Moving Old Hibbing
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Endion Depot In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The End of the Line in Currie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Franconia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 48 School Near Delano
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Florence Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Oxford Mill Ruin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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