The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
Twin Cities Area
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Harry A. Subilia was an Italian immigrant who opened the first distillery in New Ulm, Minnesota. He...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
The Almelund Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hanover Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Le Sueur Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Finding The Past In Swatara
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Red Wing Iron Works
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Green Lake Mounds
Ruins of Sawyer School
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion School In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Old School In Wolverton
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Dotson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bend in the River Regional Park
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Moving Old Hibbing
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Church of the Holy Cross
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The End of the Line in Currie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
State Theater In Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Milford Monument
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Wasioja
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Franconia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome to Hanska
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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