As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Twin Cities Area
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Built in 1926, the New Ulm Company Service Station is the best remaining example in a series of...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Milford Monument
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Visiting Golden Gate
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Almelund Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Red Wing Iron Works
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Florence Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering Quadna Resort
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Enter Marlon Brando
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
State Theater In Hutchinson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Cobden
Endion School In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Wasioja
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moderne New Ulm Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Le Sueur Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Sandstone
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Little Falls Depot
The Little Marais Inn
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome to Hanska
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Ottawa
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lost Highway 61
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

