The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Twin Cities Area
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
This old stone chapel was built at the Sunrise Funeral Home and Cemetery in 1949. Located in...
The Old School In Wolverton
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Red Wing Iron Works
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Ruins of Sawyer School
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Visiting Golden Gate
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wandering Around The Toimi School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Florence Town Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Milford Monument
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 48 School Near Delano
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hanover Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Brewery In Preston
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Dotson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Enter Marlon Brando
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Franconia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Wasioja
Green Lake Mounds
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion School In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lost Highway 61
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Le Sueur Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Ottawa
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jordan Brewery Complex
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia 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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
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
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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