Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Orpheum Theater in Duluth, Minnesota, was built on the old Temple Opera House site. The opera...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Franconia
Old Brewery In Preston
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Red Wing Iron Works
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Enter Marlon Brando
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Almelund Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Sandstone
Hanover Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Green Lake Mounds
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Cobden
Endion School In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moving Old Hibbing
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Visiting Golden Gate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Duluth Homestead Project
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Little Marais Inn
Little Falls Depot
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Florence Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
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
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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