The Germania Life Insurance Building was built in 1889 at Fourth Street and Minnesota in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance Building In...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Robbinsdale Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
In 1929, the Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge was established in Lanesboro, Minnesota. Membership...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Green Lake Mounds
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Wasioja
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Milford Monument
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Enter Marlon Brando
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Franconia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Endion School In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome to Hanska
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Visiting Golden Gate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Almelund Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Dotson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Brewery In Preston
District 48 School Near Delano
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Red Wing Iron Works
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Little Falls Depot
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Lost Highway 61
The Duluth Homestead Project
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
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