If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
Twin Cities Area
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
Wilder Public Baths
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Ottawa
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Florence Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Almelund Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome to Hanska
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Little Marais Inn
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Little Falls Depot
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Dotson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Jordan Brewery Complex
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion School In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Franconia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Church of the Holy Cross
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The End of the Line in Currie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Visiting Golden Gate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Wasioja
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
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
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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