This beauty was built in 1914 and is St Paul’s largest Prairie Style house at just under 3,000...
Twin Cities Area
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Apartments
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Little Falls Depot
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bend in the River Regional Park
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Sandstone
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Oxford Mill Ruin
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hanover Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Red Wing Iron Works
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moving Old Hibbing
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Milford Monument
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood Town Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Brewery In Preston
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Almelund Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Green Lake Mounds
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Cobden
The End of the Line in Currie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Dotson
Endion School In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moderne New Ulm Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome to Hanska
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Old School In Wolverton
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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