Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
William J Mayo was the older of the two Mayo brothers who, along with five partners, founded the...
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Brewery In Preston
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bend in the River Regional Park
Florence Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Red Wing Iron Works
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The End of the Line in Currie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moving Old Hibbing
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Enter Marlon Brando
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Green Lake Mounds
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Milford Monument
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Old School In Wolverton
The Duluth Homestead Project
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Franconia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Cobden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Endion School In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Little Marais Inn
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Sandstone
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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 Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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