The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Twin Cities Area
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
This beauty was built in 1914 and is St Paul’s largest Prairie Style house at just under 3,000...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Avenue, located on the east side of St. Cloud, became part of the Jefferson Highway system...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 48 School Near Delano
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Ottawa
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moving Old Hibbing
The Old School In Wolverton
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Sandstone
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Le Sueur Theater
The Almelund Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Ruins of Sawyer School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome to Hanska
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Wasioja
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Florence Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Little Marais Inn
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moderne New Ulm Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Green Lake Mounds
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Oxford Mill Ruin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s 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 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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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