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...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Duluth Homestead Project
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lost Highway 61
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Meyer School In St Augusta
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome to Hanska
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Dotson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Wasioja
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Milford Monument
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Randall Cooperative Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Cobden
Florence Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jordan Brewery Complex
State Theater In Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion School In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Little Falls Depot
The End of the Line in Currie
The Almelund Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill 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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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