In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Twin Cities Area
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Townhomes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lost Highway 61
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Meyer School In St Augusta
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
District 48 School Near Delano
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Brewery In Preston
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Sandstone
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Little Falls Depot
Historic Wasioja
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome to Hanska
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 6 School in New Sweden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Almelund Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Hanover Bridge
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Green Lake Mounds
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Milford Monument
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Dotson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Franconia
Enter Marlon Brando
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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