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
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Robbinsdale Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District Number 11 in McLeod County was first organized in 1865 to serve the predominantly Czech...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moving Old Hibbing
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 6 School in New Sweden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 48 School Near Delano
Hanover Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Little Marais Inn
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Old Wadena
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Dotson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Little Falls Depot
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Enter Marlon Brando
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Florence Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Cobden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Green Lake Mounds
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Old School In Wolverton
The End of the Line in Currie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Wasioja
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion School In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lost Highway 61
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Milford Monument
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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