Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
For several years, Tenney held the distinction of being Minnesota’s smallest town. The 2010 census...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The charming town of Winona, Minnesota, once played host to an extraordinary tale in the world of...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion Depot In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Sandstone
Red Wing Iron Works
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 48 School Near Delano
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Le Sueur Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Cobden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Green Lake Mounds
Moving Old Hibbing
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Franconia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Brewery In Preston
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Finding The Past In Swatara
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hanover Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moderne New Ulm Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Milford Monument
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
State Theater In Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The End of the Line in Currie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Visiting Golden Gate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Dotson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Little Marais Inn
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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