As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Twin Cities Area
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Robbinsdale Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Built in 1926, the New Ulm Company Service Station is the best remaining example in a series of...
Welcome to Hanska
Red Wing Iron Works
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
State Theater In Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lost Highway 61
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Little Falls Depot
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Brewery In Preston
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Wasioja
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion School In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jordan Brewery Complex
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bend in the River Regional Park
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The End of the Line in Currie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Finding The Past In Swatara
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Little Marais Inn
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Cobden
The Old School In Wolverton
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Almelund Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Milford Monument
Historic Franconia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering Quadna Resort
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Dotson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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