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
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Apartments
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Greater Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Frederick E. Murphy was known as the publisher and guiding spirit of the Minneapolis Tribune...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Dotson
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Duluth Homestead Project
Florence Town Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Little Falls Depot
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The End of the Line in Currie
The Old School In Wolverton
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Red Wing Iron Works
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taylor House In Le Sueur
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Meyer School In St Augusta
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome to Hanska
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hanover Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Franconia
Exploring Ottawa
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Le Sueur Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Little Marais Inn
Enter Marlon Brando
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Wasioja
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Sandstone
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lost Highway 61
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Church of the Holy Cross
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
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