Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
Twin Cities Area
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Lustron homes along Nicollet Avenue near 50th Street S in Minneapolis are among nearly 2,500 of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
Endion School In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome to Hanska
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Enter Marlon Brando
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Franconia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Little Marais Inn
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Florence Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Ottawa
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Wasioja
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
State Theater In Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hanover Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Old Brewery In Preston
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Red Wing Iron Works
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Green Lake Mounds
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Cobden
The Le Sueur Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of 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