The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
Twin Cities Area
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Little Falls Depot
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Le Sueur Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Almelund Creamery
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Sandstone
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Old School In Wolverton
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Cobden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Little Marais Inn
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Brewery In Preston
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Wasioja
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wandering Around The Toimi School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Meyer School In St Augusta
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion School In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lost Highway 61
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Visiting Golden Gate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
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...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

