Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
Twin Cities Area
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Greater Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
The Le Sueur Theater on Main Street in Le Sueur, Minnesota, opened in 1884. The building was...
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Florence Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Dotson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Visiting Golden Gate
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
Moving Old Hibbing
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lost Highway 61
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Red Wing Iron Works
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Duluth Homestead Project
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
State Theater In Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jordan Brewery Complex
Randall Cooperative Creamery
District 48 School Near Delano
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Little Marais Inn
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Franconia
The End of the Line in Currie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Milford Monument
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Sandstone
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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