In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Twin Cities Area
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Greater Minnesota
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Little Falls Depot
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Franconia
Endion School In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Visiting Golden Gate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Old Brewery In Preston
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jordan Brewery Complex
Ruins of Sawyer School
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Wasioja
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Green Lake Mounds
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lost Highway 61
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Old School In Wolverton
The Milford Monument
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Moving Old Hibbing
Hanover Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
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...
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
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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