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