In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Twin Cities Area
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
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...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
If you’ve been to the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota, there’s a good chance you’ve...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lost Highway 61
Enter Marlon Brando
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Almelund Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hanover Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Red Wing Iron Works
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome to Hanska
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Ottawa
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Franconia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The End of the Line in Currie
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moving Old Hibbing
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Brewery In Preston
The Milford Monument
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion School In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Dotson
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
The Church of the Holy Cross
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Cobden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Florence Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Wasioja
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Green Lake Mounds
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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...
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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