The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Twin Cities Area
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Le Sueur Theater
Little Falls Depot
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Ruins of Sawyer School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome to Hanska
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Cobden
District 6 School in New Sweden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The End of the Line in Currie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
State Theater In Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Duluth Homestead Project
Visiting Golden Gate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Florence Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hanover Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Old School In Wolverton
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Ottawa
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Little Marais Inn
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Church of the Holy Cross
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Meyer School In St Augusta
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City 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 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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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