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
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Florence Town Hall
Florence Town Hall is located along Highway 61 in Frontenac Station. The land to build the town...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Almelund Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moderne New Ulm Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lost Highway 61
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Church of the Holy Cross
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Brewery In Preston
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Le Sueur Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Dotson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome to Hanska
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Oxford Mill Ruin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jordan Brewery Complex
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Green Lake Mounds
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moving Old Hibbing
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 48 School Near Delano
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hanover Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Ottawa
Visiting Golden Gate
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
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
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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