In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
Twin Cities Area
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Sandstone
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Dotson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Green Lake Mounds
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 48 School Near Delano
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Florence Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Little Falls Depot
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Franconia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Milford Monument
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hanover Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 6 School in New Sweden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Enter Marlon Brando
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Old Wadena
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering Quadna Resort
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Lost Highway 61
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Little Marais Inn
Meyer School In St Augusta
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Wasioja
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
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
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
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