World-renowned author F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in an apartment on the second floor of this...
Twin Cities Area
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wilder Public Baths
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Welcome To Dotson
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Franconia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Wasioja
State Theater In Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Milford Monument
Red Wing Iron Works
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Brewery In Preston
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Enter Marlon Brando
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 48 School Near Delano
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion Depot In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome to Hanska
Little Falls Depot
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Old School In Wolverton
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
The Little Marais Inn
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Florence Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Green Lake Mounds
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Visiting Golden Gate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lost Highway 61
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Sandstone
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bend in the River Regional Park
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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