In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
Twin Cities Area
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
The Saint Paul Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
The Le Sueur Theater on Main Street in Le Sueur, Minnesota, opened in 1884. The building was...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Adolph Biermann house in Rochester is the oldest documented structure in the Mayowood Historic...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Sandstone
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lost Highway 61
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion School In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bend in the River Regional Park
Ruins of Sawyer School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome to Hanska
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Meyer School In St Augusta
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Park In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Wasioja
Visiting Golden Gate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Little Falls Depot
Red Wing Iron Works
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Franconia
Moving Old Hibbing
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Dotson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Milford Monument
The Almelund Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hanover Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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 Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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