Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Harry A. Subilia was an Italian immigrant who opened the first distillery in New Ulm, Minnesota. He...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Exploring Ottawa
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Visiting Golden Gate
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Green Lake Mounds
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Ruins of Sawyer School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Franconia
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Brewery In Preston
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Little Falls Depot
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Oxford Mill Ruin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion School In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Little Marais Inn
The Almelund Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Wasioja
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Sandstone
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Milford Monument
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Florence Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hanover Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital 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
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