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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
The townsite now known as Old Wadena was located on the Crow Wing River between the mouths of the...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Little Marais Inn
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moving Old Hibbing
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lost Highway 61
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Sandstone
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Florence Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Ottawa
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Little Falls Depot
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Wasioja
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
Meyer School In St Augusta
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Finding The Past In Swatara
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Dotson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Cobden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Green Lake Mounds
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Visiting Golden Gate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The End of the Line in Currie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Enter Marlon Brando
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Franconia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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