The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
Twin Cities Area
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Greater Minnesota
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
After one hundred and twenty years, the mystery of what happened to Clara Ober between the evening...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 48 School Near Delano
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Endion Depot In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Le Sueur Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Dotson
Florence Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Visiting Golden Gate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Franconia
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Little Marais Inn
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Meyer School In St Augusta
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Enter Marlon Brando
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moderne New Ulm Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Cobden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion School In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Milford Monument
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Little Falls Depot
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome to Hanska
Oxford Mill Ruin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The End of the Line in Currie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bend in the River Regional Park
Remembering Quadna Resort
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
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
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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