Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was founded in January 1897. The church...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wilder Public Baths
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Apartments
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Townhomes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pine Tree Lumber Company was established in Little Falls in 1890. Located on the banks of the...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Old School In Wolverton
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Endion School In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Old Wadena
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Dotson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Oxford Mill Ruin
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Little Falls Depot
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Florence Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Little Marais Inn
Moving Old Hibbing
Hanover Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Sandstone
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jordan Brewery Complex
The End of the Line in Currie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Brewery In Preston
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lost Highway 61
District 6 School in New Sweden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Cobden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Meyer School In St Augusta
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Franconia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
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...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

