It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Twin Cities Area
Wilder Public Baths
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hanover Bridge
Historic Franconia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Red Wing Iron Works
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Milford Monument
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion School In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Little Marais Inn
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Dotson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Duluth Homestead Project
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Cobden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bend in the River Regional Park
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Brewery In Preston
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Wasioja
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moving Old Hibbing
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jordan Brewery Complex
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Enter Marlon Brando
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Old School In Wolverton
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
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