Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George H. Christian was a manager at the Washburn-Crosby Company in Minneapolis who worked out a...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
The Carver County District Number 76 School was built in 1906 and opened for classes in the fall of...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
The Old School In Wolverton
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Dotson
The Little Marais Inn
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Brewery In Preston
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Red Wing Iron Works
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 48 School Near Delano
The Almelund Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Ottawa
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moving Old Hibbing
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Le Sueur Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Enter Marlon Brando
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Milford Monument
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion Depot In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hanover Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 6 School in New Sweden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Duluth Homestead Project
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lost Highway 61
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Wasioja
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The End of the Line in Currie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering Quadna Resort
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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