Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
Moderne New Ulm Library
In 1936, a sleek, Moderne-style public library was built in New Ulm, Minnesota. The land for the...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion School In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Moving Old Hibbing
Taylor House In Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Le Sueur Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Florence Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Little Marais Inn
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Ottawa
Green Lake Mounds
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Bend in the River Regional Park
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Cobden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Wasioja
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 48 School Near Delano
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Finding The Past In Swatara
Red Wing Iron Works
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome to Hanska
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Enter Marlon Brando
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Dotson
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Visiting Golden Gate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Milford Monument
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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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?
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Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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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