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
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance Building In...
The Germania Life Insurance Building was built in 1889 at Fourth Street and Minnesota in downtown...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Munger Terrace has been a landmark in Duluth’s Central Hillside neighborhood since the building was...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Little Marais Inn
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hanover Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Enter Marlon Brando
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Green Lake Mounds
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The End of the Line in Currie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Meyer School In St Augusta
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Little Falls Depot
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Franconia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Red Wing Iron Works
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moving Old Hibbing
Jordan Brewery Complex
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Hollywood Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Old School In Wolverton
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome to Hanska
Bend in the River Regional Park
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion School In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 48 School Near Delano
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Brewery In Preston
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Cobden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Dotson
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
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
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
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