Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Twin Cities Area
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Robbinsdale Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Greater Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two weeks after the James–Younger Gang raided Northfield the gang appeared at the farm of Ole...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Washington County District No. 2 was formed in 1857 for the growing number of children moving into...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Cobden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Randall Cooperative Creamery
District 48 School Near Delano
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The Old School In Wolverton
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
State Theater In Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Meyer School In St Augusta
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Little Falls Depot
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Wasioja
Lost Highway 61
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Little Marais Inn
The End of the Line in Currie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Old Brewery In Preston
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Sandstone
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Le Sueur Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Florence Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hanover Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moving Old Hibbing
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Enter Marlon Brando
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Ottawa
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion School In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
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 Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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