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