Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
Twin Cities Area
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bend in the River Regional Park is located on the former property of the Graves family. The...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Finding The Past In Swatara
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Church of the Holy Cross
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Cobden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Enter Marlon Brando
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Sandstone
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Visiting Golden Gate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Old School In Wolverton
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Brewery In Preston
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Wasioja
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Florence Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Franconia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Ruins of Sawyer School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Incline Railway
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moving Old Hibbing
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Little Falls Depot
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 48 School Near Delano
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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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