Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
One of the earliest victims of the big blow on Lake Superior in November of 1905 was the steamer...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Beaver Bay is the oldest white settlement along the North Shore of Lake Superior. It was...
Florence Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Church of the Holy Cross
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bend in the River Regional Park
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Hollywood Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
The Almelund Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Little Marais Inn
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
The Le Sueur Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Brewery In Preston
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Sandstone
Little Falls Depot
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Green Lake Mounds
Red Wing Iron Works
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Wasioja
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Visiting Golden Gate
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome to Hanska
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...

