It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Twin Cities Area
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Lincoln Branch of the Duluth Public Library opened in 1917 thanks to $30,000 from Andrew...
Exploring Sandstone
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hanover Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Brewery In Preston
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Enter Marlon Brando
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jordan Brewery Complex
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Ottawa
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lost Highway 61
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Franconia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Le Sueur Theater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Cobden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Milford Monument
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bend in the River Regional Park
The End of the Line in Currie
Oxford Mill Ruin
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
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
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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