Harry F. Legg and his wife Dora were the owners of a jewelry store in downtown Minneapolis in the...
Twin Cities Area
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery and Wurstery is located near the Mississippi River in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The West Bridge in Madelia, Minnesota, was built in 1908. It is the earliest remaining example of a...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Ottawa
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Cobden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Green Lake Mounds
Meyer School In St Augusta
Moving Old Hibbing
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Florence Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Old School In Wolverton
Visiting Golden Gate
District 48 School Near Delano
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Franconia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome to Hanska
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Endion School In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hanover Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Almelund Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Little Marais Inn
Endion Depot In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Little Falls Depot
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Brewery In Preston
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
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
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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