Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Duluth Homestead Project, also known as the Jackson Project, began under the United States...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Franconia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Sandstone
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Green Lake Mounds
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Visiting Golden Gate
Meyer School In St Augusta
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lost Highway 61
District 48 School Near Delano
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Brewery In Preston
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Milford Monument
Hanover Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Finding The Past In Swatara
Daniel Piper House in Medford
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Dotson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome to Hanska
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Florence Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Little Falls Depot
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Ottawa
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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