The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Twin Cities Area
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg and his wife Dora were the owners of a jewelry store in downtown Minneapolis in the...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hanover Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Sandstone
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Green Lake Mounds
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Almelund Creamery
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
The Milford Monument
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Old Wadena
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Cobden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Le Sueur Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
State Theater In Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Little Falls Depot
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Dotson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Little Marais Inn
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Ottawa
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Enter Marlon Brando
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Brewery In Preston
Lost Highway 61
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Wasioja
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Oxford Mill Ruin
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 6 School in New Sweden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bend in the River Regional Park
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Florence Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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 Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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