Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
Twin Cities Area
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Greater Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Sandstone
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 48 School Near Delano
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Visiting Golden Gate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hanover Bridge
Endion School In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lost Highway 61
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Moving Old Hibbing
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Almelund Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Cobden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Ottawa
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Franconia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion Depot In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome to Hanska
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Florence Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Green Lake Mounds
The Le Sueur Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
State Theater In Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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