Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
For several years, Tenney held the distinction of being Minnesota’s smallest town. The 2010 census...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Park is 37 acres of space along Miller Creek in Duluth’s west end. Today, the park includes...
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hanover Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Moving Old Hibbing
The Milford Monument
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Old Wadena
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Old Brewery In Preston
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Ruins of Sawyer School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Florence Town Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Sandstone
Lost Highway 61
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome to Hanska
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 48 School Near Delano
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Enter Marlon Brando
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Green Lake Mounds
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Old School In Wolverton
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Little Falls Depot
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Meyer School In St Augusta
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
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...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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