Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
This beauty was built in 1914 and is St Paul’s largest Prairie Style house at just under 3,000...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Greater Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
The Le Sueur Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering Quadna Resort
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion School In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Ottawa
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Little Marais Inn
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Franconia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Green Lake Mounds
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Wasioja
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Cobden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Enter Marlon Brando
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Ruins of Sawyer School
Florence Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Red Wing Iron Works
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Little Falls Depot
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Almelund Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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