Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
The State Theater in Hutchinson, Minnesota, opened its doors on December 28, 1937. Customers paid...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Sandstone
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Red Wing Iron Works
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome to Hanska
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Duluth Homestead Project
Finding The Past In Swatara
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Church of the Holy Cross
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Little Falls Depot
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Wasioja
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Enter Marlon Brando
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Ruins of Sawyer School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Visiting Golden Gate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Milford Monument
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Old School In Wolverton
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
Oxford Mill Ruin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Jordan Brewery Complex
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lost Highway 61
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 48 School Near Delano
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 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?
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Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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