University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Twin Cities Area
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minneapolis has many beautiful homes, but the Gale mansion is easily one of my top three. I love...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Greater Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Avenue, located on the east side of St. Cloud, became part of the Jefferson Highway system...
Little Falls Depot
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Cobden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Green Lake Mounds
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Ruins of Sawyer School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Little Marais Inn
Florence Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Ottawa
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Almelund Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jordan Brewery Complex
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Finding The Past In Swatara
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Franconia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Brewery In Preston
The Le Sueur Theater
Lost Highway 61
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moderne New Ulm Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Sandstone
Meyer School In St Augusta
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Wasioja
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Old Wadena
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
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...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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