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
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Oxford Mill Ruin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Old School In Wolverton
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Sandstone
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Cobden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Dotson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hanover Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Florence Town Hall
The Milford Monument
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lost Highway 61
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Red Wing Iron Works
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Franconia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Little Falls Depot
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Meyer School In St Augusta
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Le Sueur Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Enter Marlon Brando
Green Lake Mounds
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Little Marais Inn
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bend in the River Regional Park
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
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...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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