In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Greater Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
This gorgeous Second Empire style home in Hastings was built for William Thompson in 1880. Thompson...
Hollywood Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
The Le Sueur Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Dotson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hanover Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Finding The Past In Swatara
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lost Highway 61
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Almelund Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Ottawa
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Wasioja
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Milford Monument
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Oxford Mill Ruin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moving Old Hibbing
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Little Falls Depot
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Cobden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Endion Depot In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Florence Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
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...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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 Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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