Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
Twin Cities Area
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Cobden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Little Falls Depot
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Franconia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Florence Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hanover Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
The Milford Monument
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
The End of the Line in Currie
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Little Marais Inn
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Ottawa
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Almelund Creamery
District 48 School Near Delano
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion School In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hollywood Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lost Highway 61
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Green Lake Mounds
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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