The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis was constructed between 1891 and 1893. It was...
Twin Cities Area
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
This beauty was built in 1914 and is St Paul’s largest Prairie Style house at just under 3,000...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Enter Marlon Brando
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Milford Monument
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Little Falls Depot
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Brewery In Preston
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Church of the Holy Cross
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Red Wing Iron Works
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Franconia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Old Wadena
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The End of the Line in Currie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome to Hanska
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hollywood Town Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Ruins of Sawyer School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Ottawa
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
The Le Sueur Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Finding The Past In Swatara
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lost Highway 61
Hanover Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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 Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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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