In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Twin Cities Area
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little was a partner in a Minneapolis-based real estate firm. He didn’t leave behind much...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Munger Terrace has been a landmark in Duluth’s Central Hillside neighborhood since the building was...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Dotson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lost Highway 61
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Old Wadena
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Ottawa
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Enter Marlon Brando
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Le Sueur Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The End of the Line in Currie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 48 School Near Delano
Red Wing Iron Works
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Florence Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hanover Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Church of the Holy Cross
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Ruins of Sawyer School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital 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 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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