In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Twin Cities Area
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Travelers come upon the Stewart Creek stone-arch bridge in a bend of an unpaved section of Skyline...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Florence Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Sandstone
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Visiting Golden Gate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Cobden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering Quadna Resort
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moving Old Hibbing
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome to Hanska
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Milford Monument
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Franconia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Old Brewery In Preston
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lost Highway 61
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Enter Marlon Brando
Bend in the River Regional Park
Green Lake Mounds
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Munger Terrace In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Old Wadena
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Red Wing Iron Works
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hanover Bridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Little Falls Depot
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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