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...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
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...
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The End of the Line in Currie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Green Lake Mounds
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Milford Monument
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hanover Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Cobden
Little Falls Depot
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome to Hanska
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Florence Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Dotson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Franconia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
State Theater In Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Wasioja
District 48 School Near Delano
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Sandstone
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Red Wing Iron Works
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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