The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
Twin Cities Area
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Greater Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
In 1936, a sleek, Moderne-style public library was built in New Ulm, Minnesota. The land for the...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Lost Highway 61
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Old Brewery In Preston
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moving Old Hibbing
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Oxford Mill Ruin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hanover Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Red Wing Iron Works
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Milford Monument
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Enter Marlon Brando
The Almelund Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Cobden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Sandstone
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Little Falls Depot
The End of the Line in Currie
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Little Marais Inn
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Old School In Wolverton
Florence Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome to Hanska
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion School In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jordan Brewery Complex
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Ottawa
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
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
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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