In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Twin Cities Area
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Greater Minnesota
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The George and Charlotte Crosby house is located just a few blocks east of downtown Duluth...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering Quadna Resort
Little Falls Depot
The Duluth Homestead Project
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Dotson
Florence Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Little Marais Inn
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
State Theater In Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion School In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Cobden
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Ottawa
Lost Highway 61
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Church of the Holy Cross
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Sandstone
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Wasioja
Red Wing Iron Works
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
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 East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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
Old Brewery In Preston