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
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little was a partner in a Minneapolis-based real estate firm. He didn’t leave behind much...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Memories are made at the lake. Whether you’re lucky enough to go every weekend in the summer...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Little Falls Depot
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Red Wing Iron Works
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Almelund Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Cobden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Sandstone
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jordan Brewery Complex
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moving Old Hibbing
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Florence Town Hall
The Milford Monument
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Ottawa
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Le Sueur Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Dotson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Enter Marlon Brando
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Wasioja
Meyer School In St Augusta
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moderne New Ulm Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Franconia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of 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