In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Enter Marlon Brando
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Green Lake Mounds
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Old School In Wolverton
Red Wing Iron Works
The Milford Monument
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Florence Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Wasioja
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Ottawa
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lost Highway 61
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Almelund Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Franconia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Duluth Homestead Project
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Cobden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Sandstone
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Dotson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
District 48 School Near Delano
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome to Hanska
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moderne New Ulm Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate 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 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor 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