As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Twin Cities Area
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
Florence Town Hall is located along Highway 61 in Frontenac Station. The land to build the town...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Park is 37 acres of space along Miller Creek in Duluth’s west end. Today, the park includes...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jordan Brewery Complex
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Enter Marlon Brando
District 6 School in New Sweden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Visiting Golden Gate
Lost Highway 61
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Sandstone
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The End of the Line in Currie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Red Wing Iron Works
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion Depot In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Endion School In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Little Falls Depot
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Ottawa
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
District 48 School Near Delano
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Cobden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering Quadna Resort
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Wasioja
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Milford Monument
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Franconia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Almelund Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Dead Good Walks
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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