The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis was constructed between 1891 and 1893. It was...
Twin Cities Area
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Townhomes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 6 School in New Sweden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Green Lake Mounds
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Ottawa
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome to Hanska
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Church of the Holy Cross
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Red Wing Iron Works
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Dotson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion School In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Little Marais Inn
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lost Highway 61
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Cobden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Almelund Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Milford Monument
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Little Falls Depot
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Dead Good Walks
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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