Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Red Wing Iron Works
Red Wing Iron Works was founded in 1866 by brothers Benjamin and Daniel Densmore. They found a...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion Depot In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Enter Marlon Brando
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Little Falls Depot
Hanover Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Cobden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Almelund Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Church of the Holy Cross
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moving Old Hibbing
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Ottawa
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Brewery In Preston
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Dotson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lost Highway 61
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
The Milford Monument
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Le Sueur Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Duluth Homestead Project
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In 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