In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Twin Cities Area
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Construction on the Hamm Building in downtown St Paul began in 1915 and was completed in 1920. The...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion Depot In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lost Highway 61
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Le Sueur Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Oxford Mill Ruin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Wasioja
Moving Old Hibbing
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 48 School Near Delano
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Little Falls Depot
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Sandstone
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Little Marais Inn
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Dotson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Brewery In Preston
Enter Marlon Brando
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Florence Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome to Hanska
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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