Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Martha G. Ripley Hospital for Women was a pioneering institution in the history of Minnesota...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Moderne New Ulm Library
In 1936, a sleek, Moderne-style public library was built in New Ulm, Minnesota. The land for the...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
Hollywood Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Finding The Past In Swatara
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Dotson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Little Falls Depot
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jordan Brewery Complex
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Little Marais Inn
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 48 School Near Delano
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Ottawa
The Old School In Wolverton
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Visiting Golden Gate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bend in the River Regional Park
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
State Theater In Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Milford Monument
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Cobden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Wasioja
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Brewery In Preston
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Duluth Homestead Project
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion School In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome to Hanska
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Sandstone
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hanover Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Florence Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
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