University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Twin Cities Area
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Florence Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Brewery In Preston
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moving Old Hibbing
Oxford Mill Ruin
Enter Marlon Brando
The End of the Line in Currie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Ruins of Sawyer School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Ottawa
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Milford Monument
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Franconia
Visiting Golden Gate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
The Almelund Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Wasioja
Meyer School In St Augusta
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Little Marais Inn
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Dotson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 48 School Near Delano
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hanover Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Sandstone
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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