As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Twin Cities Area
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
November 27, 1905, was a typical Monday morning for the crew of the flat-bottomed scow, George...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Florence Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
The End of the Line in Currie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Brewery In Preston
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hanover Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Milford Monument
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Cobden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Enter Marlon Brando
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Visiting Golden Gate
Red Wing Iron Works
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome to Hanska
Oxford Mill Ruin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Franconia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lundring Service Station in Canby
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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