Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
Twin Cities Area
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Greater Minnesota
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Duluth Homestead Project, also known as the Jackson Project, began under the United States...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
If you’ve been to the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota, there’s a good chance you’ve...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Le Sueur Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Florence Town Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Green Lake Mounds
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
State Theater In Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Dotson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Visiting Golden Gate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lost Highway 61
Hanover Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome to Hanska
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Milford Monument
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bend in the River Regional Park
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Old Wadena
Oxford Mill Ruin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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 Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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