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
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edwin H Hewitt was one of Minnesota’s most widely-known architects of the 20th century. Born in Red...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gates of Stonebridge
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The End of the Line in Currie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering Quadna Resort
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Ottawa
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Almelund Creamery
The Milford Monument
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Enter Marlon Brando
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Florence Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Franconia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Little Falls Depot
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Meyer School In St Augusta
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome to Hanska
Endion Depot In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Cobden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Little Marais Inn
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Daniel Piper House in Medford
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hanover Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion School In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lost Highway 61
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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