Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
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George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Today, The Blaisdell is a wedding and event venue with cozy places to gather with your nearest and...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 48 School Near Delano
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moving Old Hibbing
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Ottawa
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Florence Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Little Marais Inn
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Old Brewery In Preston
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
Little Falls Depot
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Enter Marlon Brando
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Visiting Golden Gate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Le Sueur Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The End of the Line in Currie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hanover Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Red Wing Iron Works
Green Lake Mounds
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
State Theater In Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Almelund Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lost Highway 61
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Sandstone
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Franconia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Milford Monument
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In 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