Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
William J Mayo was the older of the two Mayo brothers who, along with five partners, founded the...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Almelund Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Little Marais Inn
Little Falls Depot
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Visiting Golden Gate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
State Theater In Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Florence Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Cobden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome to Hanska
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lost Highway 61
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion School In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Brewery In Preston
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
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
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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