This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Twin Cities Area
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
State Theater In Hutchinson
The State Theater in Hutchinson, Minnesota, opened its doors on December 28, 1937. Customers paid...
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Florence Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
Red Wing Iron Works
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Green Lake Mounds
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The End of the Line in Currie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Wasioja
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Dotson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Ruins of Sawyer School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moving Old Hibbing
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering Quadna Resort
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion Depot In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Visiting Golden Gate
The Milford Monument
Exploring Ottawa
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hanover Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Cobden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Little Marais Inn
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome to Hanska
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Little Falls Depot
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Old Brewery In Preston
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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