The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Twin Cities Area
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Apartments
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Munger Terrace has been a landmark in Duluth’s Central Hillside neighborhood since the building was...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Enter Marlon Brando
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Franconia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The End of the Line in Currie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Little Marais Inn
District 6 School in New Sweden
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Le Sueur Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Florence Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Red Wing Iron Works
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 48 School Near Delano
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
Visiting Golden Gate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Little Falls Depot
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome to Hanska
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lost Highway 61
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Sandstone
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Green Lake Mounds
Hanover Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moderne New Ulm Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bend in the River Regional Park
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Milford Monument
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
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 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

