In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Located in Robbinsdale, the international-style Terrace Theatre opened on May 23, 1951. At the...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Geldner Sawmill stands on a narrow strip of land that separates Lake Jefferson and German Lake...
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Dotson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Le Sueur Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Sandstone
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Old Wadena
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Ruins of Sawyer School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Almelund Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
State Theater In Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Franconia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion Depot In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Old School In Wolverton
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Milford Monument
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Little Falls Depot
Green Lake Mounds
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Endion School In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome to Hanska
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The End of the Line in Currie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 48 School Near Delano
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Visiting Golden Gate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Red Wing Iron Works
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Cobden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lost Highway 61
Taylor House In Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Ottawa
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Meyer School In St Augusta
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital 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