Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Frederick E. Murphy was known as the publisher and guiding spirit of the Minneapolis Tribune...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Have you ever wondered how Minnesota became known as the land of 10,000 lakes? Every Minnesotan...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lost Highway 61
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Finding The Past In Swatara
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Old Wadena
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Exploring Ottawa
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Almelund Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 48 School Near Delano
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Brewery In Preston
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion School In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moderne New Ulm Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Dotson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Wasioja
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Little Falls Depot
Bend in the River Regional Park
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Green Lake Mounds
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Sandstone
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Le Sueur Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Old School In Wolverton
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Oxford Mill Ruin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Cobden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
Enter Marlon Brando
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
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
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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