In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Twin Cities Area
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wilder Public Baths
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
In 1957, trucks loaded with prefabricated homes rolled along Highway 61 toward a new building site...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Florence Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Wasioja
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Brewery In Preston
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Ottawa
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hanover Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lost Highway 61
Endion School In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Little Marais Inn
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Old School In Wolverton
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Old Wadena
Red Wing Iron Works
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering Quadna Resort
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Dotson
Enter Marlon Brando
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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