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