If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
Twin Cities Area
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Almelund Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Ottawa
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lost Highway 61
The Le Sueur Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome to Hanska
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Endion School In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Cobden
Moving Old Hibbing
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion Depot In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hanover Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Florence Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 6 School in New Sweden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 48 School Near Delano
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Milford Monument
Red Wing Iron Works
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Dotson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The New Ulm Company Service Station
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Little Marais Inn
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Visiting Golden Gate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moderne New Ulm Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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