Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Twin Cities Area
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Martha G. Ripley Hospital for Women was a pioneering institution in the history of Minnesota...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Ottawa
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Almelund Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lost Highway 61
The Little Marais Inn
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
The Milford Monument
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Little Falls Depot
Historic Franconia
The Old School In Wolverton
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Red Wing Iron Works
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The End of the Line in Currie
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome to Hanska
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
District 48 School Near Delano
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Cobden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Oxford Mill Ruin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Brewery In Preston
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion Depot In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Green Lake Mounds
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Endion School In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering Quadna Resort
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Florence Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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 First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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