Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Twin Cities Area
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George H. Christian was a manager at the Washburn-Crosby Company in Minneapolis who worked out a...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Saint Paul Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
By the end of the 19th century, dairy was quickly out-pacing wheat as the top agricultural...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
After one hundred and twenty years, the mystery of what happened to Clara Ober between the evening...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Franconia
The Almelund Creamery
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Wasioja
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
State Theater In Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Little Falls Depot
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Meyer School In St Augusta
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lost Highway 61
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion School In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Florence Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 6 School in New Sweden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 48 School Near Delano
Jordan Brewery Complex
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moderne New Ulm Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Dotson
Red Wing Iron Works
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Ottawa
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Oxford Mill Ruin
Visiting Golden Gate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Cobden
The Milford Monument
Moving Old Hibbing
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome to Hanska
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
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...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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