Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
If you’ve been to the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota, there’s a good chance you’ve...
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Old Wadena
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moving Old Hibbing
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome to Hanska
Lost Highway 61
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
Visiting Golden Gate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering Quadna Resort
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Dotson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Little Falls Depot
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 48 School Near Delano
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hollywood Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Little Marais Inn
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Ottawa
Hanover Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Enter Marlon Brando
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The End of the Line in Currie
The Almelund Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
Florence Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion School In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Milford Monument
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Finding The Past In Swatara
Red Wing Iron Works
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Cobden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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