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
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The George and Charlotte Crosby house is located just a few blocks east of downtown Duluth...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Ruins of Sawyer School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
Little Falls Depot
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion School In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Wasioja
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Franconia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
State Theater In Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Cobden
The Le Sueur Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
The Little Marais Inn
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moving Old Hibbing
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Milford Monument
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome to Hanska
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Sandstone
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Brewery In Preston
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Old School In Wolverton
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion Depot In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Old Wadena
Florence Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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