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
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
Cobden, Minnesota, was incorporated in 1905. The little railroad town included a bank, creamery...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
The End of the Line in Currie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moderne New Ulm Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Church of the Holy Cross
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Red Wing Iron Works
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lost Highway 61
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Franconia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 48 School Near Delano
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome to Hanska
Ruins of Sawyer School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Wasioja
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Duluth Homestead Project
Florence Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bend in the River Regional Park
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Enter Marlon Brando
The Little Marais Inn
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Visiting Golden Gate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moving Old Hibbing
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
District 6 School in New Sweden
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown