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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Milford Monument
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion School In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering Quadna Resort
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Old Brewery In Preston
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Visiting Golden Gate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bend in the River Regional Park
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Cobden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Duluth Homestead Project
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Little Marais Inn
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Finding The Past In Swatara
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Wasioja
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 48 School Near Delano
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Le Sueur Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hanover Bridge
Lost Highway 61
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Ottawa
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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