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 Saint Paul Hotel
The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Visiting Golden Gate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Church of the Holy Cross
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
The Milford Monument
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Sandstone
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Ottawa
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Little Falls Depot
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 48 School Near Delano
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Franconia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Le Sueur Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Cobden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Brewery In Preston
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Old Wadena
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul