The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Twin Cities Area
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Cobden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Le Sueur Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hanover Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Brewery In Preston
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Finding The Past In Swatara
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The End of the Line in Currie
Florence Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome to Hanska
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion Depot In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Franconia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Dotson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 48 School Near Delano
Oxford Mill Ruin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Milford Monument
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lost Highway 61
Green Lake Mounds
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Enter Marlon Brando
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion School In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Little Falls Depot
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
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...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...

