Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
Twin Cities Area
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Wilder Public Baths
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
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...
Welcome to Hanska
Little Falls Depot
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Milford Monument
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Le Sueur Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion Depot In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Little Marais Inn
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hanover Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bend in the River Regional Park
The End of the Line in Currie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Almelund Creamery
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moving Old Hibbing
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Ottawa
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Park In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Brewery In Preston
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Dotson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Green Lake Mounds
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lost Highway 61
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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 Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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