The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis was constructed between 1891 and 1893. It was...
Twin Cities Area
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Donald and Carrie Balfour house in Rochester, Minnesota, is a lovely example of how an Arts and...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Church of the Holy Cross
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion School In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Almelund Creamery
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Dotson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Ruins of Sawyer School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Florence Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Le Sueur Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
State Theater In Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Wasioja
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 6 School in New Sweden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Ottawa
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The End of the Line in Currie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Little Falls Depot
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Franconia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hanover Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome to Hanska
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering Quadna Resort
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 48 School Near Delano
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Enter Marlon Brando
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Moving Old Hibbing
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lost Highway 61
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Milford Monument
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
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