Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Vermont-native Almond A. White came to Minnesota after the Civil War and settled in Brainerd for a...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Milford Monument
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Church of the Holy Cross
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Enter Marlon Brando
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Oxford Mill Ruin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Brewery In Preston
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Sandstone
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Dotson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The End of the Line in Currie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Little Marais Inn
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Red Wing Iron Works
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Wasioja
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
State Theater In Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Visiting Golden Gate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Little Falls Depot
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lost Highway 61
District 48 School Near Delano
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Old School In Wolverton
The Almelund Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Franconia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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