Constructed in 1897 for $13,000, the First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was designed...
Twin Cities Area
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Constructed in 1869-70, the Metropolitan Hotel once stood at the corner of Washington and Third...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Robbinsdale Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
For several years, Tenney held the distinction of being Minnesota’s smallest town. The 2010 census...
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Finding The Past In Swatara
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Florence Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The End of the Line in Currie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moderne New Ulm Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Red Wing Iron Works
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Le Sueur Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Wasioja
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Green Lake Mounds
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Milford Monument
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lost Highway 61
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 48 School Near Delano
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Almelund Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Little Marais Inn
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hanover Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Little Falls Depot
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Church of the Holy Cross
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Dotson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Ottawa
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Franconia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Cobden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Moving Old Hibbing
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion School In Duluth
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...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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