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
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was founded in January 1897. The church...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Greater Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Ottawa
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lost Highway 61
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion School In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Florence Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Finding The Past In Swatara
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Oxford Mill Ruin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Church of the Holy Cross
Enter Marlon Brando
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Almelund Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Cobden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Old School In Wolverton
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Milford Monument
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Welcome to Hanska
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Little Marais Inn
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Dotson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Franconia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
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...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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