The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
Twin Cities Area
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
World-renowned author F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in an apartment on the second floor of this...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Duluth Homestead Project, also known as the Jackson Project, began under the United States...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
There are quite a few examples of the gorgeous Eastlake-style architecture in Minnesota, but this...
Historic Wasioja
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Franconia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
The Little Marais Inn
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood Town Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lost Highway 61
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Visiting Golden Gate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Le Sueur Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Green Lake Mounds
Little Falls Depot
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion School In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Brewery In Preston
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hanover Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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