The Germania Life Insurance Building was built in 1889 at Fourth Street and Minnesota in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance Building In...
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Saint Paul Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
November 27, 1905, was a typical Monday morning for the crew of the flat-bottomed scow, George...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Ruins of Sawyer School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion School In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Franconia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Sandstone
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Visiting Golden Gate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Enter Marlon Brando
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moving Old Hibbing
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Wasioja
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Little Marais Inn
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Ottawa
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lost Highway 61
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome to Hanska
Florence Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hanover Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Dotson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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