Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
Robbinsdale Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Red Wing Iron Works
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Ottawa
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Cobden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moderne New Ulm Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Florence Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Little Marais Inn
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jordan Brewery Complex
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Daniel Piper House in Medford
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Wasioja
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome to Hanska
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Brewery In Preston
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Franconia
The Old School In Wolverton
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
The End of the Line in Currie
Little Falls Depot
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Almelund Creamery
The Milford Monument
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Dotson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moving Old Hibbing
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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