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
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Greater Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to one of the most awe-inspiring buildings in Minnesota. It’s big. It’s...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moderne New Ulm Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Cobden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Milford Monument
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Red Wing Iron Works
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering Quadna Resort
Florence Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion Depot In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 6 School in New Sweden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Little Falls Depot
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The Old School In Wolverton
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Almelund Creamery
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Old Wadena
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Le Sueur Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Wasioja
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bend in the River Regional Park
Green Lake Mounds
Lost Highway 61
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Sandstone
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Enter Marlon Brando
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Brewery In Preston
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
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...
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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