As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Twin Cities Area
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
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...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Duluth Homestead Project, also known as the Jackson Project, began under the United States...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moving Old Hibbing
District 48 School Near Delano
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Le Sueur Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Brewery In Preston
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The End of the Line in Currie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Old School In Wolverton
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Sandstone
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 6 School in New Sweden
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
The Milford Monument
Finding The Past In Swatara
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Franconia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Green Lake Mounds
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lost Highway 61
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome to Hanska
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Dotson
Visiting Golden Gate
Jordan Brewery Complex
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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