Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
District #28 School in Ramsey
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hanover Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Franconia
Historic Wasioja
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Visiting Golden Gate
The Little Marais Inn
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Le Sueur Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lost Highway 61
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome to Hanska
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Brewery In Preston
Red Wing Iron Works
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Old School In Wolverton
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Church of the Holy Cross
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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 First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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