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