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
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...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Duluth Homestead Project, also known as the Jackson Project, began under the United States...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
State Theater In Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Milford Monument
Bend in the River Regional Park
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Red Wing Iron Works
Florence Town Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
The End of the Line in Currie
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Dotson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Finding The Past In Swatara
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion School In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Green Lake Mounds
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Enter Marlon Brando
Hanover Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome to Hanska
Little Falls Depot
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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