Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Greater Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
By the end of the 19th century, dairy was quickly out-pacing wheat as the top agricultural...
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Little Falls Depot
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
Florence Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Sandstone
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hanover Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moderne New Ulm Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Brewery In Preston
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lost Highway 61
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Milford Monument
Historic Franconia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Cobden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Wasioja
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The End of the Line in Currie
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome to Hanska
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Ottawa
Finding The Past In Swatara
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Little Marais Inn
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Le Sueur Theater
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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