Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
There are quite a few examples of the gorgeous Eastlake-style architecture in Minnesota, but this...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Green Lake Mounds
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
State Theater In Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moderne New Ulm Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Little Marais Inn
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Oxford Mill Ruin
Finding The Past In Swatara
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Dotson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moving Old Hibbing
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Little Falls Depot
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Sandstone
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Cobden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Old Wadena
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Visiting Golden Gate
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Old School In Wolverton
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Red Wing Iron Works
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
District 48 School Near Delano
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Endion School In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Franconia
Hollywood Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome to Hanska
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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