Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
World-renowned author F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in an apartment on the second floor of this...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Apartments
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Little Falls Depot
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Old School In Wolverton
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bend in the River Regional Park
Visiting Golden Gate
Green Lake Mounds
Florence Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Duluth Homestead Project
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lost Highway 61
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Little Marais Inn
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Ottawa
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Enter Marlon Brando
Red Wing Iron Works
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion Depot In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Franconia
Moving Old Hibbing
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The End of the Line in Currie
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Old Wadena
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Brewery In Preston
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
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...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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?
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
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