Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The childhood home of children’s book author and illustrator Wanda Gag was built in New Ulm...
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Visiting Golden Gate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome to Hanska
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moderne New Ulm Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hanover Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Milford Monument
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Brewery In Preston
Enter Marlon Brando
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Duluth Homestead Project
Little Falls Depot
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Lost Highway 61
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Green Lake Mounds
Jordan Brewery Complex
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood Town Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Le Sueur Theater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Dotson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Finding The Past In Swatara
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Wasioja
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Ottawa
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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