It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Twin Cities Area
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Martha G. Ripley Hospital for Women was a pioneering institution in the history of Minnesota...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
Florence Town Hall is located along Highway 61 in Frontenac Station. The land to build the town...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Cobden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Old Wadena
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Hanover Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moderne New Ulm Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion School In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Old School In Wolverton
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Milford Monument
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Wasioja
The Almelund Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moving Old Hibbing
Visiting Golden Gate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Little Marais Inn
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 48 School Near Delano
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to Hanska
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Franconia
Exploring Ottawa
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The End of the Line in Currie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
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...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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