Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Greater Minnesota
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bend in the River Regional Park is located on the former property of the Graves family. The...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Le Sueur Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Florence Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 48 School Near Delano
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Historic Franconia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Wasioja
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome to Hanska
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Brewery In Preston
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Green Lake Mounds
Endion School In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
Oxford Mill Ruin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Visiting Golden Gate
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Little Marais Inn
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lost Highway 61
Finding The Past In Swatara
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Cobden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Daniel Piper House in Medford
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
State Theater In Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The End of the Line in Currie
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Little Falls Depot
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
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
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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